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Bangkok's Klong Ong Ang now ready for Loy Krathong festival tonight


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Klong Ong Ang now ready for Loy Krathong festival tonight

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BANGKOK: -- One of Bangkok's old canals, Klong Ong Ang, is now ready to welcome visitors finding a new place for the celebration of Loy Krathong tonight.

Thanks to the recent plan by the Government and the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, to return the city’s once famed canal back to its original state after several decades of being covered under hundreds of stalls occupying the public canal for business.

After almost a two month long demolition of hundreds of stalls, today the canal banks were face-lifted with no eyesore sights remaining to obstruct its landscapes.

Adorned with flowers and decorative along the two kilometre stretch now strictly a pedestrian walkway, the old canal will be the newest city attraction for locals as well as visitors to Bangkok.

Today street vendors from the nearby area busily preparing their handmade Krathong made from bread, or lotus-shaped receptacles which will be used for tonight’s festival.

According to the vendors, sales should be much better than before as the new walkway will be more spacious, orderly and will attract lots of people to come.

In the past, people had to use levers tied either to a basket to lower their krathong down the water. Or tie their krathong with raffle strings instead to lower them by themselves, a rather tricky feat. This reflected how overcrowded the space was.

The renovation has opened the canal front along the stretch for people to do so with ease.”

With all the preparation being made by BMA authorities, visitors now can expect a great surprise.

Far from its old image, the place now offers vistors an idyllic Old Siam sense lined with heritage architectures, some over a hundred years old; now its signature attraction.

Klong Ong Ang is one of the original Bangkok canals, dating back more than 200 years, constructed by King Rama I. It was here that Burmese and Chinese porcelain trade thrived and the root of Siamese porcelain started.

The new face lift now will bring back history and nature to the canal when it opens with the Festival of Light tonight.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/klong-ong-ang-now-ready-for-loy-krathong-festival-tonight

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-- Thai PBS 2015-11-25

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I hope there will be no dead kids from swallowing Khlong water, after they went swimming for the floats . . . . .

have they checked and tested the Khlong water ?

Edited by crazygreg44

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