Yi Peng Festival: This is another annual traditional festival to celebrate full moon in Chiang Mai and Northern Thailand. Yi Peng is the term referred by northern Thai as the full moon of the 12th lunar month in Buddhist calendar.

It is celebrated as a religious event and the people make merit and perform religious activities. The high light of this event focuses on the lunching of the Khom Loy or floating lanterns into the bright moonlit-night sky. It is the traditional belief that misfortune and bad luck will fly away with the floating lanterns.

Khom Loy or floating lanterns that are offered to monks and float in the temple is believed that the ones who offered them will receive wisdom and bright future. The flame in the lantern symbolizes knowledge and the light will lead them to the right path of bright future in their lives.

To celebrate this auspicious occasion, people make merit by floating Khom Loy to dispel bad luck and seek good fortune. This will bring joy and happiness to the people as their bad luck has been floated away into the sky. On this occasion we will see thousands of lovely Khom Loy float gently into the sky in the day and at night.

Yi Peng : 10,000 Loy Krathong (Khom Loy ) Festival Lanterns Getting Released

Chiang Mai (เชียงใหม่) is the hub of Northern Thailand.

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