International Wax Sculpture 2010

Jul 1, 2010 - Jul 31, 2010

Green Season Travel in the Northeast was a trip to Ubon Candle for its famous festival.

The green season months of July to September are great months to this little visited region of Isan, Northeast Thailand, or explore. The dry plateau Isan quickly transforms into a lush carpet of Snooker-green rice fields, lush forests and orchards as daily rain sweeping the area.

Normally, rain clouds roll from the southwest at the same time each day offers a spectacular tropical downpour, which moves in less than an hour, so to enjoy the scenery and the fresh one mite cooler for travelers.

Probably the most popular area is lower Isan, where travelers a Heritage Trail through Buriram, Surin, Si Sa Ket provinces all the way to the East follow to Ubon, only 100 km to the west marked the border with Laos south of a meandering river Mekong.

Ubon is the commercial hub of the lower Isan, a flourishing city with a large university population, a busy commercial center and even shops on the size seen in Bangkok.

saturated on the banks of the Mun River, the city's religious heritage and that is no more evident than in July, when the city folk to gather for the annual procession of candle.

Temple villages in the city to spend months creating elaborate traditional candles made from beeswax. Her art is through the city center on the Asamha Bucha Day, 26 Khao Phansa July and the beginning of the parade marks the three-month Buddhist Lent, 27 July.

Rightly, communities are very proud of their needs at candle designs and the painstaking work before they can be displayed for all to see. They compete for the recognition of their peers, the temple is one of the judges to win the Candle Sculpture highest award.

There are literally hundreds of sculptures, many of the so great, they need an eight-wheel motorized float they carry through the streets. Musicians march, while classical dance groups, the masses of people who are talking to turn in their thousands for the two-day parade.

But if the track will not be tweaked to ensure that it will be for the actual parade, you can still admire the works of art at the International wax sculpture in 2010, 01-31 July 2010 in Thung Si Muang District, Ubon Ratchathani. Now in its fifth year, the exhibition is part of the celebrations Asamha Bucha and Khao Phansa, but it is enough presents for the whole month with candle wax sculptures by artists from around the world.

The list of international artists, the sculpture in wax and point in a year in Ubon is very impressive, especially the modern works by artists carved royal world but for many visitors to His Majesty the King candle is the signature exhibit.

Artists involved in the exhibition in Ubon stay and visit the exhibition until 11 July to discuss with visitors the finer points of art and religious interpretation.

Ubon is situated 629 km from Bangkok and is part of a fascinating self-drive holiday begins in Bangkok with stops in Buriram and Nakhon Ratchshima provinces to explore historic sites, the Elephant Village Surin and the orchards of the province of Si Sa Ket on the way to Ubon.

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