The Flower Festival Parade, a spectacular part of the Flower Festival, has typically started early on Saturday morning, but in 2014, the festival parade ran as an afternoon/evening affair. The flower parade lines up along Charoen Muang Road, all the way from the Nawarat Bridge to the train station. At 4 PM the parade started and moved up Tha Pae Road to Tha Pae Gate. It then turned left and followed the moat round to Suan Buak Haad. Typically, the flower parade moves very slowly, and stops frequently, so there is no need to rush to take photographs of the gaily decorated floats, pretty girls and buff boys, and hill tribe people in their colorful costumes. Western-styled marching bands from local schools and local drumming groups are liberally interspersed among the floats. Dancers in traditional costumes perform Thai dances, and often those taking part in the flower parade hand out flowers to the spectators.