Loy krathong Day is one of the most popular festivals of Thiland celebrated annually on the Full-Moon Day of the Twelfth Lunar Month. It takes place at a time when the weather is fine as the rainy season is over and there is a high water level all the country.
Loy means to float and a krathong is a lotus-shaped vessel made of banana leaves.The krathong usually contains a candle three joss-sticks some flowers and coins.In fact the festival is of Brahmin origin in which to people offer than theks to the Goddess of the water thus by moonlight people light the candles rivers or even small ponds It is believed that the krathong carry away sins and bad luck and the wishes that have been made for the new year due to start Indeed It is the time to be joyful and happy as the sufferings are floated away
The festival starts in the evening when there is a full moon in the sky people of all walks of life carry their krathongs to the nearby rivers After lighting candles and joss-sticks and they go out of sight
A beauty Queen contest is an important part of the festival and for this occasion it is called the noppamas Queen contest noppamas is a legendary figure from the sukhothai period old documents refer to her as the chief royal consort of a sukhothai kng named lithai noppamas was said to have made the first decorated krathong to float in the river on the occasion