Songkran is a Thai traditional New Year which starts on April 13 every year and lasts for 3 days. Songkran festival on April 13 is Maha Songkran Day or the day to mark the end of the old year, April 14 is Wan Nao which is the day after and April 15 is Wan Thaloeng Sok which the New Year begins. At this time, people from the rural areas who are working in the city usually return home to celebrate the festival. Thus, when the time come, Bangkok temporarily turns into a deserted city.

Rocket Festival or "Boon Bang Fai" in Thai is usually held in the second week of May of each year, at the beginning of the rainy season. The farmers are ready to cultivate their paddy fields. The festival is popularly celebrated in the northeastern provinces of Yasothorn and Ubon Ratchathani. The celebration is an entreaty to the rain god for plentiful rains during the coming rice planting season.

The Poy Sang Long isa three-day celebration of Buddhist novice ordination which usually takes place in late March or early April of every year in the Thailand's most north-western province of Mae Hong Sorn.

Phi Ta Khon is a type of masked procession celebrated on the first day of a three-day Buddhist merit-making holiday known in Thai as "Boon Pra Wate". The annual festival takes place in *May, June or July at a small town of Dan Sai in the northeastern province of Loei.

The Chinese Moon Festival usually takes place on the 15th day of the eight lunar month (in September or October). The Mid - Autumn Festival is held in honour of the Moon Goddess which is believed to have been born on this date.

Long-boat Racing is one of the traditional rites which marks the end of the Buddhist Rains Retreat. It mainly takes place in the 11 th or 12 th lunar months (around September or October). When the water level is at its highest. At this time,racing is held almost nationwide,notably in PhichitPhisanuloke, Nan , Angthong, Pathumthani, Surat Thani and Ayuttathaya etc

This annual auapicious event is a most colorful and dramatic celebration which takes place during the first nine days of the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar. The 9-day event is usually in late September or early October.

In Thailand, the most talked - about vegetarian festival is in Southern Province of Phuket where the auspicious ceremony is held in a grand celebration. During the 9-day period, the devout Chinese Buddhists dress in white attire, convert to vegetarians and observe the ten rules in order to purify their minds and bodies.

There is a Buddhist myth that during one Rains Retreat or "Khao Phansa" Lord Buddha went to heaven to deliver a sermon to his mother who died after giving birth to Lord Buddha (them Prince Siddharatha) and was born again in heave n. The sermon given was said to last for the entire period of the Rains Retreat (3 months).

Loy Krathong Day is one of the most popular festivals of Thailand celebrated annually on the Full-Moon Day of the Twelfth Lunar Month. It takes place at a time when the weather is fine as the rainy season is over and there is a high water level all over the country.

Yee Peng is tha annual festival held to celebrate the fulll moon in the northern capital of Chiang Mai on the day preceding Loy Krathong by one day in November.The word "Yee Peng" is the northern Thai term referring to the full moon of the 12 th lunar month in the Buddhist calendar.

The most popular of Northeastern festivals with foreign tourists is the Surin Elephant Round-up which is held annually in November. The people of Surin have long been renowned for their skill in capturing and training wild elephants and the round-up. In the past wild elephants lived in the forest areas of nearby Cambodia. Unfortunately, these areas have been inaccessible due to civil war in Cambodia, and at the same time, the elephant population is markedly decreasing thus the elephant catchers must now make a living by taking their charges around the country giving shows.

The world-famous railway bridge over the River Kwai is in Kanchanaburi province about 130 kms west of Bangkok. The bridge is well-known all over the world because almost half a century ago about 16,000 Allied POWs died while building the "Death Railway" to Burma. The prisoners were forced by the Imperial Japanese Army in the World War II to build a strategic railway through the disease ridden jungle and treacherous rivers of the province.

The festival of the Illminated Boat Procession or "Lai Reua Fai" in Thai and "Lai Heua Fai" in local dialect is an ancient tradition of northeastern people. In the past, the festival was held in several provinces in this region, later only some provinces still proserve this tradition especially Nakhon Phanom Province where the annual event draws visitions from different directions. It has end of Buddhist Lent.

Stroll in the sunflower fields and the vineyards. Meet the Thai cowboys and taste exquisite fruits.

The Saraburi - Lopburi route, the agricultural lifestyle much similar to the American country livelihood. Blooming sunflower along both sides of the highways from Lopburi to Chai Badan, and from Muak Lek to Wang Muang. Visit "Pa Sak Chonlasit Dam", the world's biggest and longest saddle dam. Also experience the cowboys' outdoor lifestyle at "Chok Chai Farm" in Pak Chong.