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The Valentine’s Day approaching, here is a list of activities for activities travellers can forward to if visiting southern Thailand. As I am not married I shall keep well away from this as have already been in deep water, managed to swim ashore, so am staying dry for a wee while at least.
Underwater wedding is now an annual ritual marking Valentine’s Day in Trang.
Nakhon Si Thammarat will invite 10 foreign couples to a mass Viva Nai Man Mek (wedding in the clouds) ceremony scheduled February 13-16 atop Mt Mhen, 1,315 metres above sea level, in Muang district of the province.
Interested couples can apply by calling the provincial administration at 075-356-252 ext 306, or the Tourism Authority of Thailand’s provincial office at 075-346-515/6.
Trang will hold its now world-famous underwater wedding February 13-15 off Pak Meng Beach in the province’s Sikao district. This year the ceremony, being held for the 13th time, will among others feature a blind man, Suksa Laksanaprim, of the Foundation for the Blind in Thailand, taking his marriage vow the same day.
Application forms can be downloaded at http://www.underwaterwedding.com.
Phuket will see 32 couples taking the vow during a traditional Babah-style wedding in the city’s old quarter on February 14. Joining the occasion will be 25 couples from Taipei, specially invited by the Tourism Authority of Thailand, to promote Thai-Chinese relations, and eight others wishing to take the vow the old way.
Call TAT’s Phuket office at 076-211-036 for more information.
For marrying couples, Chumphon plans a wedding on raft with a cruise along the Phato Stream on February 14 and 15. For more information, call the district office at 077-539-040.
In Satun, 25 couples will join a mass wedding on Ko Khai, part of Tarutao Marine National Park. The event takes place February 14 and 15 when couples will walk through a big hole in a rock and spend a night on Ko Lipe.
So come on take the plunge, really I think it would be rather cool, beats sky diving.
Also Phuket will see 32 couples taking the vow during a traditional Babah-style wedding in the city’s old quarter on February 14. Joining the occasion will be 25 couples from Taipei, specially invited by the Tourism Authority of Thailand, to promote Thai-Chinese relations, and eight others wishing to take the vow the old way.
Call TAT’s Phuket office at 076-211-036 for more information.
For marrying couples, Chumphon plans a wedding on raft with a cruise along the Phato Stream on February 14 and 15. For more information, call the district office at 077-539-040.
In Satun, 25 couples will join a mass wedding on Ko Khai, part of Tarutao Marine National Park. The event takes place February 14 and 15 when couples will walk through a big hole in a rock and spend a night on Ko Lipe.
For more information, call 074-711-074.
Songkhla will feature a cave wedding at Khao Namkhang that from 1972-87 was a sanctuary for members of the now-defunct Communist Party of Malaysia.
Since the cave are not large enough for the function. Participating love couples will take marriage vows just outside the cave, like members of the communist party used to do in the old days, with candies and a cup of coffee.
Visit http://www.songkhlatourism.org for more.
In Surin, 82 brides and their grooms will join a mass wedding riding elephants on February 14 in the province’s Tha Tum district. Held in the traditional Surin style, all couples will be issued registration papers at the end of the wedding.
Interested couples can apply at the district office or call TAT’s Surin office at 044-514-447/8.
Charity bed push
The first charity bed push in Thailand will be held on February 8 in Pattaya.
Organised by the Rotary Club of Pattaya and the local administration, it emulates similar fund-raising activities around the globe, such as in the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.
Spectators will see teams of six people dressed in funny attires push their decorated beds along the Beach Road. If successful, this charity competition will be turned into an annual event.
Thought I would add this for those would be travellers great air fares from Cathay Pacific Airways and has cut airfares and fuel surcharges in a bid to stimulate air travel and tourism. The Thai baht to the US dollar is around 34bahts to $1
According to Yongyuth Lujintanont, its marketing manager for Thailand and Burma, the airline has launched special low-priced packages on key routes. As such, prices on the Bangkok-Hong Kong route start from 6,100 baht, Bangkok-Singapore from 3,500 baht, Bangkok-Beijing from 9,000 baht, and Bangkok-Osaka from 11,600 baht.
Bangkok-London and Bangkok-Paris are priced at 23,100 baht, while Bangkok-Los Angeles costs 25,200 baht. Meanwhile, the airline will increase flights between Bangkok and New Delhi, with a daily flight starting March 28. It also plans to open a new office in Bangkok.
