Phuket Carnival underway in Patong

By The Phuket News

 

The annual Phuket Carnival parade will get underway this afternoon, with main roads in Patong to close for the spectacle. Photo: Tanyaluk Sakoot

 

PHUKET: The annual Phuket Carnival to mark the start of the tourism high season began in Patong today (Nov 1) with a merit making and an alms-giving ceremony and Loma Park at 11am.

 

The festivities begin in earnest with the annual parade featuring floats and performances by staff, residents and members of local hotels and other tourism businesses, including Phuket FanatSea, starting at 7pm.

 

Several of the main roads through the town, including the beachfront road, will be closed from 3pm to 8pm to allow the parade to continue to Loma Park, which will be the centre of activities fro the coming week.

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Patong gets the Phuket Carnival started

 

The Phuket Carnival got underway in Patong last night (Nov 1). Photo: Patong Municipality

 

PHUKET: The annual Phuket Carnival to mark the start of the tourism high season began in Patong last night (Nov 1) with the colourful parade throughout Phuket’s busiest tourism town.

 

As is tradition, the carnival kicked off with the annual parade, which coursed its way through the town and along the beachfront road. Thousands of people lined the streets to enjoy the hundreds of colourful costumes and floats as the parade passed by.

 

The parade concluded at Loma Park on the Patong beachfront, which will serve as the centre of festivities for the next five days.

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Parades are fun and I dont want to perverbally p on it but between 21.00 and 22.00 last night there was more people taking pics of the mega traffic jam on beach rd than the parade offerings.

 

With 2.5 Klms of beach to go at? and a decision is made to totally block the main route out of patong (owing to the silly one way system that causes regular congestion) The contribution to greenhouse gasses last night and tourist amazement of <deleted>?? was an amazing feat

 

Normally bikes could have escaped the caos along the actual beach prom but then that was blocked off with all the temp stalls set up to earn the extra bahts