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Home » Events and festivals » How to make a Krathong yourself (video)
How to make a Krathong yourself (video)
Loy Krathong is one of Thailand's many annual festivals and perhaps the most beautiful. In this video you can see how you can make your own traditional krathong.
During Loy Krathong, Thais gather at lakes, rivers, canals to launch beautiful lotus-shaped boats decorated with candles, incense and flowers into the water. Loy Krathong is celebrated all over Thailand. The exact date of the festival is determined by the Thai lunar calendar, so the date differs every year.
Loy Krathong falls on the night of the full moon of the twelfth lunar month (usually in November) at the end of the rainy season, when the full moon lights up the sky.
The sight of thousands of Krathongs floating away with their flickering candlelight is truly magical. “Loy” means “float”, and a “krathong” is a kind of flower arrangement made from a slice of a banana tree trunk, which is then decorated with folded banana leaves and flowers.
You can of course buy a krathong, but making one yourself is obviously much more fun.
Video: How to make a Krathong yourself
Watch the video here:
Loy Krathong is indeed a wonderful tradition. But like so many traditions very polluting. The 'boats' with all kinds of things on them, including cuttings of water plants, are pushed into the water, nobody knows where they end up and how the plants develop. An example. I have enjoyed walking around Map Prachan for many years. The dogs also liked to swim a bit. Me too by the way. Loy Krathong was also celebrated a few years ago. Beautiful. But the consequences were disastrous. The 'boats' blew up all shores where the wind wanted to park them. The result was that within a few months a large part of them settled and grew into a sea of aquatic plants, with in between the rubbish that the boats also transported next to the candles. My dogs and I could no longer enter the water, a pity, but especially local fishermen were deprived of their fishing area. It was overgrown with the plants polluted with the rubbish they carried. That went on for a few years. A few months ago, people started to 'clean up' a piece of forest and part of the lake. I can't follow what her plan is because things keep changing. Then another jetty with boats, which suddenly disappeared.
So I don't know what's going to happen. It's none of my business, I'm a guest here. But it is a pity that such a beautiful water reservoir and walking and grooming area is treated in such a way. But maybe there is a vision behind it. If anyone knows I'd love to hear it.