Celebrating in Sakon Nakhon

Visakha Bucha celebrations in Sakon Nakhon

Sakon Nakhon has hosted the annual celebrations of Visakha Bucha Day since 2003 Bangkok Post

The next major Buddhist Holiday is Asalha Puja August 2, celebrating Buddha's first sermon.
The following day is Wan Khao Phansa, the beginning of the Buddhist rain retreat (Buddhist Lent)

Keeping track of Buddhist holidays can be a bit of a problem. These holidays are based on the lunar calendar and change every year.

Many websites have erroneous information regarding these holidays.
The 2012 Sakon Nakhon Wax Castle Festival is a typical example.
One website lists the event dates October 8-12. Those dates were the 2011 dates.

2012 Royal Long Boat Races and Wax Castle Festival

Haven't seen any official dates for this year's events, so I did a little math based on previous celebrations


Year	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
Full Moon	Oct 26	Oct 14	Oct 4	Oct 23	Oct 12	Oct 29
Celebration Dates	Oct 22-26	Oct 10-14	Sept 30-Oct 4	Oct 20-23	Oct 8-12	Oct 26-30

Photo Album Update

After a disk crash last year, and almost loosing thousands of photographs (over 50,000), I've made multiple copies and am in a long process of sharing them on the web.

It's been quite a surprise to many of my friends and Thai family who are seeing pictures of themselves taken over the past ten years.
Of course it's also quite interesting to see changes that have taken place here in the city.