Maybe you shouldn't have taken out a big kite on a windy day?

One of the best places to experience Songkran is in Khao San Road,Bangkok,Thailand,where it is celebrated on a grand scale with a flavour uniquely and entirely its own,attacting visitors from far and   more...wide.This year,Songkran Thai New Year festivities scheduled fro April 12-15,will be held at Khao San Road,in the vicinity of the city's gates and around the city moat.One of the highlights of the festival is the "Songkran Khao San Road Beauty Queen Procession" that takes place on Songkran Day itself-April 13.It is here that the visitor gets to see various aspects of Khao San Road,first hand,-its culture,cuisine,arts, and crafts as well as the friendly  less

Deriving from the Sansakrit language, the word "Songkran" means to pass or to move into. In this context, the meaning implies to the passing and the moving of the sun, the moon and the other   more...planets into one of the zodiacal orbit. And the Grand Songkran Festival which falls on the Aries indicates the new era of the Thai New Year. Owing to the ancient Indian belief, the Grand Songkran Festival is most appropriate to be the Thai New Year due to the timing of the best season which is known as the spring of India which comes right after the cold season of winter. Also, there are other aspects supporting this belief such as the blooming flowers, the fresh atmosphere of the nature and the livelihood of all the living creatures.


With the great influence from the Indians, the Songkran Festival portrays the typical ways of life of the Thais which involve the agricultural aspects. Free from their regular routine work, the Thai citizens will find time to perform their annual rites of showing respect to their ancestors. The highlight of the festival will include the younger Thais paying respect to their elders by sprinkling their hands with scented water. And in order to welcome the New Year, the celebration will include the delighted colourful local entertainment which, in fact, suitably unite the mutual relationship between members of the family, the society, the nature and surrounding. Therefore, this Songkran Festival has proved to be the most important and grandest festival of the year. Moreover, our neighbouring countries such as Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos have also organised this type of festival.


Since the old days during the Sukhothai period, the Songkran Festival had been practised both in the royal court palace and among the ordinary citizens. However, the size of the celebration had not been as elaborated as of today. Back in those days, civil servants and other government officials would pay homage to the king, and would drink the oath of allegiance to the king or the government, while the king would provide annual salary to all officials. Later on in Ayutthaya period, the festival had been expanded by including  less

trying to get the"kite" up in the air

Again 2006 has brought us another year of our own White Feather mini Glastonbury here Devon . This clip is just a tiny excerpt giving an insight into the truly wonderful natural Healing side of the Festival   more...organised by Andrea Thompson and showing in part what the whole event was about, the incredible amount of behind the scenes hard work raising funds for the Chernobyl Childrens Project Charity before the Festival began. The Main event on the day was huge and an incredible success, a truly spectacular show, boasting top names from all over the country organised by 'Bob Thompson. One group that particularly impressed me, was the London based band '100 Per Cent. They really were bl**dy good, infact you can see them in action on the 'Bob Thompson Wedding Video included on this site. I take my hat off to Bob and Andrea for the amazing amount of hard work they have both put in organising this Festival' I feel very proud of them and I hope another similar event will be in the pipeline for next year.  less

Slide show of Surrey Children's Festival. No jugglers or clowns here. Edu-tainment is the word to describe these activities at this kids festival in a Vancouver suburb.

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These nut job kite surfs on land.

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I took a friend of mine touring around Arlington Cemetary and the Washington DC Mall for the Cherry Blossom Festival this weekend.

We went to the tomb of the unknown soldier and watched the changing of   more...the guard, the Washington Monument, the WWII Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial. We also saw the annual kite flying contest at the Washington Monument.

Of all the years I have lived in this area, this is the first time I've ever gone to the Cherry Blossom Festival, the Cemetary or the kite flying. It was cool. A good time was had by all.  less

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A kitesurf board is similar to a surfboard or a wakeboard having a platform with straps attached to it to keep the rider steady while a kite, aided by strong wind, pulls him/her through the water at an   more...incredible speed. But the popularity of the sport is not very old – it has caught on only since the 90’s. You can even say that there is a little bit of windsurfing, surfing and wakeboarding in kiteboarding. However, compared to windsurfing and surfing, kiteboarding is a somewhat easier form of sport to learn and it is not quite unusual to observe students getting up on their kiteboards after receiving two or three lessons from a certified instructor. There are many things that you will need for kiteboarding and this list of course begins with the board, but it also includes a harness, an impact jacket, control bar with lines, a helmet (for your own protection) and also a sharp knife that becomes handy when the wind picks up too much.<br />  less

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Watch the burning of a Falla from beginning to end, up close and from a distance. This video is part of video 2of2 of The 2008 Fallas Of Valencia Festival series. Here's the links to the series:


Part 1:   more...http://www.livevideo.com/video/Jayen/ACCD3E060F7A446EAD42238ADB83F1E8/the-2008-fallas-of-valencia-fe.aspx

Part 2: http://www.livevideo.com/video/Jayen/1328AF9659BA44FABD143A3E83E20DDD/the-2008-fallas-of-valencia-fe.aspx

Back in March of 2008 I stayed at a friends student flat in the Spanish city of Valencia for a few days during the biggest festival of the year for the city, Las Fallas (The Fallas). This gave me the chance to see and video both the Fallas and their burning (in video 2of2) later on the 19th of the month (I had never seen the burning before). I had a lot of fun doing this and I hope you enjoy watching these videos :)

Las Fallas (The Fallas), also known as fiestas josefinas in castellan or festes de Sant Josep in the local dialect from Catalan Valenciano, are celebrated in several towns and cities throughout the Velancian community of Spain, although The Fallas festival that takes place in the city of Valencia is by far the biggest.

Some Background

The Festival takes place from the 14th to the 19th of March and is held in honor of San José, the patron saint of the carpenters. The Fallas are artistic sculptures of known people with other elements incorporated around them; they often represent political/social statements about things in the Valencian community and Spain, which is why they are burnt on the last day of the festival as a way of symbolizing the action of getting rid of these unwanted sides of society.

The Fallas began in medieval times, simple from the carpenters of the city having a day of the year where they could take out into the streets and burn any left other rubbish from there carpenter work. Other time it has evolved until the present day where hundreds of Fallas are built each year (a total of 386 in 2007). Today The Fallas are a mayor event and a very important touristic attraction to the city of Valencia and Spain.

For more information see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallas

And:
http://www.valenciavalencia.com/cultu... (Has a number of good photos)

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http://www.CoastalCompanion.com events and festivals in Georgia. Hilton Head Island Concourse d'Elegance Motoring Festival, Savannah Seafood Festival and Film Festival in the episode.

I bet his mom will never tell him to "go fly a kite" ever again.