The City of Tel Aviv - Views, Culture, People and Life in Tel Aviv taken in various locations and events throughout the city.
Including the gay pride parade, the love parade, beer festival, holiday celebrations, everyday beach and caf'es lifestyle.
Here is a short streaming video of the festival over a two day period. The first day, April 13, is the Songkran parade, which takes place on Muangchareon and Thapae roads at 2 PM and lasts around 3 hours. We then hit the streets to join the water fight mostly concentrated along the moat in the city center.
This is the Thailand version of the Rose Bowl Parade in the USA. Colorful floats made with colorful flowers, orchids and seeds are used. Wonderful traditional northern Thai costumes are worn by all and lovely girls and beauty queens adorn the floats. There are marching bands and country folk playing northern Thai music in the parade. The festival is always the first weekend in Feburary. On Saturday is the parade and on Sunday is the beauty pagent and displays of unique flowers, plants, trees and orchids in the park. As with every festival in Chiang Mai there is plenty of delicious food available from vendors along with a Shopping Bazaar surrounding the park.
Every year, during the St. Patrick's Day parade in NYC, a section of 5th Avenue on 59th Street is designated just for protesters. They call it the Protest Corral. Why would anyone have anything bad to say about Irish Day in New York? Well, they seem to have some valid reasons...
