Loy Krathong
- Month
- November
- Where
- Every waterside · the north: Yi Peng (sky and hanging lanterns)
🗺️ Chiang Mai🗺️ Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya (Krung Kao)🗺️ Bangkok🗺️ Kanchanaburi🗺️ Samut Sakhon (Mahachai)🗺️ สมุทรสงคราม
Local name
Yi Peng · Chiang Mai
Full moon of the Lanna 2nd month: oil lamps, hanging lanterns, sky lanterns released as an offering.
Notes from 1980
Bangkok’s Golden Mount fair at Wat Saket runs over Loy Krathong. Confirmed by sources
Sky lanterns then were handmade saa-paper lanterns of Lanna villagers, not the later mass releases of thousands. Likely