Chiang Mai to host colourful annual flower festival

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Chiang Mai to host colourful annual flower festival

Authorities in the Northern Thai city of Chiang Mai recently confirmed the schedule for the 2018 Flower Festival. The festival will take place over the weekend beginning Friday 2 February and end on Sunday the 4 February.

The festival parade will take place on the Saturday, but city officials have not so far confirmed whether this will be in the morning or the afternoon. The Flower Festival parade is a highlight on Chiang Mai’s annual events calendar and features floats bedecked in glorious garlands of flowers and often with a local beauty queen providing the crown.

Marching bands, dancers enacting traditional Lanna routines and marchers wearing traditional dress accompany the parade. The parade begins at Chiang Mai Railway Station and follows a route up to Nawarat Bridge, across the River Ping, along to Thapae Gate and then over to the terminus at Suan Buak Haad Park.

12GO ASIA says the park area is where stalls set up by the local horticultural industry producers will lay out blooms ranging from damask roses to tropical orchids and chrysanthemums. On the Saturday and after the parade is over, Suan Buak Haad is the centre of the festivities and the venue for the Miss Chiang Mai Flower Queen contest.

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