Thailand Songkran Festival Songkran is the traditional Thai New Year celebrated on 13 to 15 of April, 13th being the Thai New Year, 14th being the nation’s Family Day, and 15th being family reunions at which family members get together and make merit at the temple and gently pour water mixed with Thai fragrance, called [...]
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Visit Wat Phra That Chae Haeng at Nan for the Year of Rabbit 2011 Like other Southeast Asian peoples, the Lanna people of Northern Thailand believe that to bring them highest prosperity, they should visit “Phra That” of their Zodiac birth year, just even once in their lifetime. Wat Phra That Chae Haeng located in [...]
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Unique Buddhist Temples of Thailand – Wat Pumin in the City of Nan Located about 668 kilometres from Bangkok, Wat Pumin is one of the 50 Northern temples that I visited recently with Silpakorn University Bangkok. Besides Wat Nong Bua, Wat Pumin is a very unusual Nan’s temple in Thailand. In the middle of the [...]
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A Field Trip with Silpakorn University Bangkok It was a truly memorable and enlightening experience for the second year students from the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic arts, Silpakorn University Bangkok to explore 50 ancient Northern Temples from 8 provinces in Thailand – Nan, Phrae, Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Lamphun, Lampang, Sukhothai and Phitsanulok. [...]
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