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Chinese New Year Festival

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In 2020 the Chinese New Year festival will be celebrated from the 18th till the 29th of January in Nakhon Sawan. The night parade will be held on the 27th and the morning parade on the 28th.

Every year Chinese New Year falls on a full moon between the 21st of January and the 20th of February. In Nakhon Sawan the festival takes 11 days.

I went to Nakhon Sawan in 2016 on New Years Eve of the Chinese calendar that year. My Belgian mind thought the biggest party would be happening on New Years Eve, but I was wrong. Apparently the biggest parades are happening on the last days of the festival.

There is a market every day of the festival around the Chinese tempel. You can buy about everything there. Gadgets, towels, sunglasses, … you name it. And of course lots and lots of food.

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At some point I walked into a part which was like a carnival. Lots of attractions for kids. There were almost no kids around but school wasn’t finished yet at the time.

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I went back on one of the closing days. The night parade started around 19h. I was immediately impressed by all the decoration.

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Walking around at the festival makes you feel like a kid at a carnival. All the lights, all the smiling people and all the cute kids in little Chinese dresses just has to put a smile on your face.

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When the parade started it was extremely crowded in the streets. It was very difficult to get some good shots, but there were a lot of friendly people who let me pass just to take a picture. Thank you for that friendly people of Nakhon Sawan! The parade had a lot of beautifully decorated floats.

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It was a very spectacular parade! The girls looked pretty and the boys looked very cool. It was really fun to experience this atmosphere.

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If I think of a chinese festival I immediately think DRAGONS!!! And there were many! The dragons danced through the parade and also jumped into side streets.

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The most spectacular was the big dragon which was moving on extremely dramatic music coming from equally extreme tuned cars.

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I loved the night parade. I am definitely visiting the Chinese New Year festival in Nakhon Sawan again!

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