Carnival masks

Carnival masks happens only once a year. Interestingly, the exact date of the festival, the monks announce about three weeks before the event, after the end of negotiations with the spirits. Well, or you can just look at the official website of the Office of Tourism of Thailand.

You will participate in all actions in the status of guests of honor of the carnival.
You will go to the northeast of Thailand, in the province of Isan.

A a rule, all the girls working in the bars of Pattaya, come from Isan. Some people believe that this area is very poor, but do not poorer than other regions, and the girls come to Pattaya because it's just such a tradition ...

Festival

During the festival, almost all government offices send their employees to participate in the procession. All are dressed in national costumes. Sometimes, large cars covered with multicolored fabrics merrily pass along the main street of the city Don Sai.

On the route of the procession will be shops with souvenirs, drinks, food. Thai music is heard everywhere.
Painted half-naked men, with models of phalluses in their hands, will accompany the procession. Some participants will hold in their hands large wooden figures of men with bare genitals. It should be noted that the abundance of phalluses in the procession is quite large.

The colorful procession through the main street, with singing and dancing comes to the temple Ponchaev where all ends of the Buddhist ceremony.

The next action is launching a large bamboo rocket that will call for a rainy summer.

The final day is marked by performing magical rituals and actions shocking the unprepared viewer.

After Carnival masks

The place where the festival is held, located near the nature reserve, where you can swim in a perfectly waterfalls. Over the entire period of the festival in the valley Dan Sak, We look:

• ethnical settlement At Tea,
• waterfalls Than Sawan,
• Chom Pa Kang Song Con and a Buddhist monastery Wat holes.

We will make visits to these places in the morning and participate in the carnival in the afternoon.
This tour is better to book in advance!

Departure from Pattaya by excellent transport with soft seats at 6.00.

1 day.

Visit to the new giant temple in the form of a cylindrical space ship at the entrance to the city of Saraburi.

Wat Tam Khao Prang. A mystical and very beautiful temple in the province of Lopburi, on a high mountain, with sacred relics. Place of pilgrimage for Buddhists from all over the world

European style lunch (steaks to choose from)

High mountain active residence of the King of Thailand and a park of high mountain flowers. A grove of Swiss pines, specially brought from the Alps.

Check in to the hotel and rest for an hour. The hotel is located above a mountain lake in a very picturesque area, with strawberry fields stretching along the mountain slopes. Those who wish can pick mountain strawberries themselves and eat them (in season).

Watching the sunset on Glass Mountain. In the evening, the illuminations and light show of the most beautiful temple complex in Thailand are turned on.

Dinner in national Thai style.

Rest at the hotel.

Day 2.

In the morning, at dawn, we visit the observation deck of Khao Kho Park, surrounded by tropical flowers. From here we observe the unique natural phenomenon “Sea of ​​Clouds”

We take our time exploring the temple on Glass Mountain, the most beautiful in Thailand today.

Glass bridge over the Khao Kho mountains. A new attraction in Thailand.

At dawn we drink coffee and have breakfast above a 540m cliff, which offers magnificent views of the mountains and the temple complex Wat Phrathat Pha Sorn Kaew.

13:00 - 14.00 City of spirits, ghosts, werewolves, ghouls...

The main holiday of Isan is Phi Ta Khon. Festival of masks and life-size stuffed dolls. Songgran is superior in all emotional senses. Through it all, you stay dry. The lucky ones may fall into the arms of ghouls.

At midnight we return to the hotel.

Day 3.

9.00 Breakfast at the hotel.

13.00 "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" Rocket Day!

Hundreds of phallus-shaped bamboo rockets fly into the sky, asking for rain.

Phi Ta Kon Carnival.

15:00 Amazing temple. Everyone. Location, architecture, geometric symmetry of magical/mystical objects. Made from a billion ceramic shards.

Return to Pattaya at night.

Arrival in Dan Sai and check-in at the hotel at 16.00.

We spent three days in a luxury hotel in a picturesque valley on the banks of a beautiful mountain river. The hotel is decorated in Thai style, and there are huge images of terrible spirits near it.

Departure for Pattaya at 10.30, we will arrive at 20.30, with stops.