The Candle Festival is held each July in the North Eastern province of Ubon Ratchathani to celebrate the beginning of Buddhist lent or Khao Phansa.
For the next three months of the rainy season, monks are required to dwell in the same temple, and traditionally big candles were given in the hope that they would provide light for the monks throughout the period of Khao Phansa.
Now, giant candles with elaborately carved scenes of Hindu and Buddhist mythology are sculpted in wood or plaster and coated with wax and then paraded through the city centre on floats, accompanied by dancers and musicians in traditional dress.
On the day before Buddhist Lent begins, Asanha Bucha Day, the candles are taken to Tung Sri Muang, a park in the middle of the city, where they are decorated and then exhibited in the evening. On the same evening, there are small processions with lighted candles at several temples. The main procession takes place early the following morning which, in Thai, is called Wan Khao Phansa.
This festival is one of the best in the Thai calendar and taking this tour with Bangkok Day Tours, it will provide great memories for you of your time in Thailand.
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