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Loy Kratong Festival 2024

November 2, 2024 /

งานวันลอยกระทง ประจำปี 2567

Please Join us on Sunday November 17, 2024 begin 10:00 to 14:00 for annual Loy Kratong festival at Wat Mongkoltepmunee.

ขอเชิญร่วมสืบสานประเพณี งานวันลอยกระทง ณ วัดมงคลเทพมุนี ในวันอาทิตย์ที่ 17 พฤศจิกายน 2567 เวลา 10:00 น. เป็นต้นไป

ACTIVITIES:

Kratong for sale
Thai food market
Thai Buddhist School Performance and Rum Wong (Thai Dance)
Kratong Contest – bring your Kratong for a chance to win – Beauty, Creativity and Environmental Friendly.
We encourage everyone to wear traditional Thai attire for the event.

A traditional Kratong is a beautiful small basket made from a round piece of a banana trunk and decorated with banana leaves, flowers, incense and a candle.

Loy Kratong is a popular Thai festival celebrating during the full moon period in the 12th Lunar month which usually falls in November.

The word Loy means “to float”, and the word Kratong refers to a basket.

Many Thais float their Kratongs down the rivers, ponds, lakes, canals or other waterways at night to pay their respect to the water goddess, Pra Maha Kongkha.

The act of floating a Kratong symbolizes of letting go of one’s anger, sadness and bad luck.

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