List of Cultures matches Surat Thani
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1. Rambutan Fair
Period Date : August Place : Surat Thani This annual fair is held in August to celebrate this delicious fruit. The first rambutan tree was planted in Surat Thani in 1926, and now trees are grown throughout in the area. Highlights of the fair include exhibitions of agricultural produces and ornamental plants, floats adorned with rambutan and other fruits, and domonstrations of trained monkeys splitting coconuts.
2. Chak Phra & Thot Pha Pa Festival
Period Date : Around October Place : Surat Thani Chak Phra means " to pull a sacred Buddha". The activity occurs on the same day as the Thot Pha Pa Ceremony, a form of merit-making when Buddhists offer saffron robes to monks and donate money to temples at the end of the Buddhist Rains Retreat (around October). Budd;ha images on elaborately decorated carriages are pulled by the local people with land and water borne processions.
