Just received my copy of this year's festival brochure.
Should have the schedule translated within a day
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| Blue route is the Longboat Festival parade route Red Route is the Wax Castle Festival parade route |
Friday, October 12, 2012
Sakon Nakhon Royal Longboat Races and Wax Castle Festival
Amateur Hour at Thailand Tourism Authority
Earlier this year I noted an advertisement at the TAT website for the Sakon Nakhon Wax Castle Festival. The notice had the wrong dates. They used last year's dates Oct 12-16.
The web page was corrected four days after my second e-mail to the webmaster. But by then the damage had been done. Tourists agents throughout the world had picked up on the wrong dates.
Again there's a few of disappointed tourists in town, two weeks too early.
It's not the first time I've noted wrong dates listed for the festival.
I've met and heard of disappointed tourists in past years.
The Sakon Nakhon Wax Castle Festival is held each year in conjunction with the end of the Buddhist Lent and generally begins three days before the full moon. Thus each year it's on different dates.
Wonder if T.A.T. will get this right someday. Maybe even in my lifetime.
The web page was corrected four days after my second e-mail to the webmaster. But by then the damage had been done. Tourists agents throughout the world had picked up on the wrong dates.
Again there's a few of disappointed tourists in town, two weeks too early.
It's not the first time I've noted wrong dates listed for the festival.
I've met and heard of disappointed tourists in past years.
The Sakon Nakhon Wax Castle Festival is held each year in conjunction with the end of the Buddhist Lent and generally begins three days before the full moon. Thus each year it's on different dates.
Wonder if T.A.T. will get this right someday. Maybe even in my lifetime.
Sakon Nakhon Midnight Special
They usually go for 10 baht each there.
The bag of six cucumbers, bought at the midnight market, also sold for ten baht.
It's probably not called the midnight market.
Vendors begin to show up in the late evening when the night market (near MJ Majestic hotel) closes.
It's basically a wholesale produce market where many restaurants do their shopping.
Selling is done from the back of pickup trucks.
I've done some shopping there at 2am in the morning.
These prices are better than the night market.
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Memory Lane Sakon Nakhon
You could set your watch by the passing of the herd.
Did you notice the red tractor in the first picture?Take a closer look |
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Long Boat Races at Lao Po Daen
October 13-15
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| Turn here |
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| If you see this sign, you are on the right road |
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| Continue to follow the road |
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| A few vendors were already in operation today |
Not much work was being done when I visited. There was a party at the far end of the lake. A couple hundred people had gathered there.
Monday October 15 is Vegetarian festival day.
Not a bank holiday
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