2023 Shan New Year @ Thoed Thai

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Confirmed for 23-25 November 2022.

Some earlier GTR reports on Shan New Year @ Thoed Thai

Shan New Year 2011 Thoed Thai

Thoed Thai, the yellow flowers and 2014 Shan New Year

Shan New Year 2019 - Thoed Thai

What a crowd & what a load of fun. The 2019 Shan New Year in Thoed Thai was a real hoot. more to come once I'm back in Chiang Mai.

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A couple of pics from Thoed Thai and Shan New Year.

More to come.
A big thank you to Steve for picking me up in chiang Rai and taking me to Thoed Thai.
It was a ripper little time we had hanging out with the locals.

 

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A clip from the midnight festivities, that I missed as I was in bed resting my leg.

what a fabulous show it was.

 

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It's been a few years since I was in Thoed Thai for Shan New Year due to covid.
The main parade used to gather & start from a field and was scheduled for 5pm.
Hoping to get some early photos before the crowd Steve & I checked out the starting point at 2.30PM to see nothing happening.
Oops we're far too early, so back to the GH for another power nap.
The old disabled fellah oversleeps and at 5PM it's a race back to the starting point, where again there;s nothing going on. That's a bit odd we think?
Then we see lines of people in full costume powering on up the road & turning into another soi.
Let's follow them & see what's going on.
And yep, they;re all there. We were in the wrong location! The new starting point is more discrete, but also much bigger, and the crowd is all there lined up ready to go. Lucky we were....

With the crowd all lined up ready to move it was not really possible to get the closeup individual character photos I like to get, so it was abit of a rush to race along & get group pics of all the different villages groups, ready & raring to go.
However, Steve & I did enjoy ourselves & the colourful spectacle.

The gals above were all schoolteachers at the TT primary school.

More to come..

 

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As the parade got underway & started to leave the field, everyone went off at a fast pace & I was under pressure hobbling along trying to get a few snaps.

It was one of the friendliest, happy parades I've seen for awhile.