This pagoda festival is held in April in Bago. Every year, dancers and theatre troupes gather and perform in this festival to please the Festival Organisers in order to receive bookings from agents that want them to perform in future festivals. The performers make new and beautiful costumes out of the money received in advance […]
The March Street Festival, also known as Guanyin Fair, is one of the most magnificent festivals of the Bai Ethnic Group in Dali, Yunnan. It is held every year from 15 to 21 of the Third Lunar Month (usually in April). Legend has it that Guanyin Bodhisattva defeated the evil Rakshasa. Since then, the Bai […]
#Here are some of Thailand’s distinctive Visakha Bucha Day celebrations: Sukhothai ‘Wien Tien Ta Khan’ Visakha Bucha Day 2024 21-22 May 2024 Wat Chang Lom, Sukhothai Historical Park Sukhothai Nakhon Phanom Visakha Bucha Day 2024 22 May 2024 Wat Phra That Phanom Nakhon Phanom 51st World’s Only Wien Tien Ceremony on Water, Phayao Lake 22-24 […]
A crystal-clear alpine lake wedged between Kunming and Yuxi, Fuxian Lake (Fuxian Hu) is best-known for the huge amount of Cambrian fossils discovered there, but average travellers can head for the lake on May 10th in the name of Lixia, or the Advent of Summer. A traditional festival once involving a sacrifice to the lake's […]
