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Festival : Lang Suan Fruit Fair Location : Chumphon
August : The activities of this event are fruit contest, fruit market, preserved-fruit products, and competition for queen of the fruit contest


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Festival : Cake Festival Location : Trang
August : Derives from the fact that Trang people are well known for making delicious cakes. This is particularly true for the villagers of Ban Lam Phu Ra where making cakes dates back generations. The cakes of Trang have no frosting and have several flavours like orange, coffee, three-flavoured, etc. The festival is scheduled for every August. The cakes make ideal gifts.

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Festival : Trang Roast Pork Festival Location : Trang
September : The festival features the mouth-watering roast pork made with Trang's special recipe. The pork skin is crispy, the meat is tender, and it is delicious due to a process by which the pig is fermented with herbs then roasted whole on a specially made grill. Trang's roast pork is sold daily and goes well with morning coffee or can be a dish at banquets.

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Festival : Salakpatt Location : Chiang Mai
September/October : A festival special to North, it involves making merit by taking necessities to temples without designating which monk is to receive them. This festival varies slightly from place to place.

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Festival : Vegetarian Festival Location : Phuket
September/October : Vegetarian Festival is held on the first day of the 9th lunar month (usually October). Phuket islanders of Chinese ancestry commit themselves to a 9-day vegetarian diet, a form of purification believed to help make the forthcoming year "trouble-free". The festival is marked by several ascetic displays, including fire-walking and ascending sharp-bladed ladders.

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Festival : Lang Suan Festival of Buddha Floating Procession, Boat Competition Location : Chumphon
October : This event has been the old tradition of Lang Suan for more than 100 years. Normally held in October of every year, the highlights of this festival are decorated Buddha Floating Procession from many temples. In the afternoon, the long boat competition is held.

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Festival : Long-tailed Boat Races Location : Phitsanulok
October : The traditional Long-tailed Boat Races are usually held in October when the Nan River is full. The fair is held in front of Wat Phra Si Ratanamahathat. Robes are placed over the Phra Buddha Chinarat, and there are contests of boat.

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Festival : Chong Phara Procession Location : Mae Hong Son
October : The Chong Phara in the Thai Yai dialect means a castle made of wood, covered with colourful perforated papers and decorated with fruits, flags and lamps. It is placed in the courtyard of a house or a monastery as a gesture to welcome the Lord Buddha on his return from giving sermons to his mother in heaven, according to traditional belief. Other activities to celebrate the occasion include dances where performers are dressed in animal costumes. The rite is held during the post rain retreat season from the full-moon day of the 11 the Lunar month (around October) to the waxing moon night of the same month.

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Festival : Chak Phra Festival Location : Surat Thani
October : Surat Thani celebrates the official end of the annual 3-month Buddhist Rains Retreat (Ok Phansa) in mid-October with the Chak Phra Festival (literally 'the procession of hauling the Buddha image'). The tradition stems from the belief that the Buddha ascended to Heaven during Phansa to preach to his mother. The festival marks the Buddha's return to Earth, and is an occasion for religious merit-making and general celebrations. Local people organise dazzling land and waterborne processions of revered Buddha images (to symbolise the Buddha's return to Earth) and boat races on the Tapi River where long boats, manned by up to 50 oarsmen, are ebulliently raced. Religious devotion, spectacle and merriment combine to make Surat Thani's Chak Phra Festival a memorable annual event.

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Festival : Taphao Shell Festival Location : Trang
November : Festival is aimed at promoting the conservation of nature and the environment. The festival is held at Pak Meng Beach every November, which features a contest of gathering Taphao shells.


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