Celebrating Loy Krathong Festival In Lampang Thailand | 2021 Travel

Celebrating Loy Krathong Festival In Lampang Thailand | 2021 Travel. In this travel vlog set in Northern Thailand, we celebrate the Thai Festival called Loy Krathong in a favorite city of mine in Thailand called Lampang. Lampang was alive and Thai people were out enjoying Loy Krathong with their friends & families. It was such a great night. If you love to travel Thailand then Lampang is a city I recommend you to visit and spend at least a few days discovering this lesser known Thai city. The evening was full of great people watching. It was very interesting to see all the Thai people celebrating Loy Krathong, it really is an awesome Thailand Holiday. I hope the 4k video can capture some of the vibrancy because it truly was a beautiful scene and a great cultural experience to remember along your travels in the world. Thailand travel is opening up and more tourism is expected so that is good news for Thailand & Thai tourism. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel to come along for more Thailand travel experiences. Thanks a lot for watching.

Some history about Loy Krathong:
It is a festival that is celebrated for a handful of reasons. For one, this time of the year marks the end of the rainy season, which is always a cause for celebration.
It is believed that Loy Krathong, or ‘the festival of light,’ originated in the ancient city of Sukhothai. It is not necessarily a religious holiday, but you will see many Thais praying to the water goddess, Mae Khongkha, as they float their decorated ‘boats’ down the river. Many Thais will give thanks to the water goddess for the fortune of having water while others will ask for forgiveness for using too much or contaminating it.

Each candle has a prayer, memory, or wish attached to it as it makes it way down whatever body of water it finds itself on. That is the basic idea of the entire festival: it is a new beginning of sorts. Thais and foreigners participating in the festival let go of whatever their misfortunes are and let the water carry them downstream and away for good. Burning incense and lighted candles cover the tops of the krathongs, which are the circular objects, usually made of banana leaves and flowers, floating down the river. Loy means ‘to float.’ It is certainly an amazing sight to watch thousands of lighted banana-leaf boats float down waterways all over the country.
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