How we celebrated new year in thailand last winter we already wrote. By the way, one of our friends was in Chiang Mai this new year and said that everything was about the same. So we missed it a bit 🙂
But in February 2011, I don't remember what date, we saw interesting installations in our favorite shopping center Kad San Keo, timed to coincide with the Chinese New Year. Moreover, they had nothing to do with China specifically, so in the photographs you will not see Chinese lanterns and other paraphernalia.
Preparing for the Chinese New Year
We went to the shopping center almost every day, as there was a good supermarket there, and there was also a cafe we had chosen near it. And even in December, we began to notice in the courtyard what strange constructions made of papier mache and crowds of Thais scurrying around them..
Strange structures pasted over with paper
The base of the Eiffel Tower is recognized
The process and manufacture of the animal
Here animals are already pasted over with paper
Still an empty room
Penguin coloring in full swing
Large frameworks for buildings
The finished giraffe camel
The ice dwellings of the penguins are ready
Here, too, more or less everything is ready
Icicles as real
Animal skeleton
Sews very focused
In the courtyard, construction is in full swing
Painting of domes
Construction of the Great Wall of China
The eiffel tower is ready
Chinese New Year in Thailand in Chiang Mai
In fact, the preparation and creation process turned out to be more interesting to observe than the result itself. Laughing Thais, smeared in paint, noisy and merrily talking among themselves - at least that's how it looked from the outside.
Courtyard after cleaning it from debris
St. Basil's Cathedral turns into the Golden Gate Bridge
St. Basil's Cathedral turns into the Golden Gate Bridge
The Sphinx hid in a depression
The leaning tower of pisa is about to fall
The Statue of Liberty is clearly not happy with something
Tanned elephants
Well a very tall tower
And the dragon fountain is always here
Has anyone been to Kad San Kaew anytime soon? I wonder if they weren't up to anything this time.
P.S. For those who are going to Chiang Mai during the Chinese New Year, I recommend booking accommodation in advance, for example, using the service RoomGuru, and for acquaintance with guesthouses in the city center I recommend our overview of guesthouses.
