Cha-Am’s Biggest Annual Festival ‘Kin Hoy, Do Nok, Tok Muek’

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Cha-Am’s Biggest Annual Festival ‘Kin Hoy, Do Nok, Tok Muek’

 

 

It’s Cha-Am’s biggest off-season Festival and a huge celebration of local seafood; that’s the Shell Eating (or is that shell-food eating?) – Kin Hoy, Bird Watching – Do Nok and Squid Catching – Tok Muek Festival. Organised by the Tourism Authority of Thailand, the Cha-Am Municipality and the Boonrawd Brewery Public Company Limited, this year’s festival will be held between 10th and 17th September.

 

The Festival is centred at the closed-totraffic beach end of Narathip Road and the adjacent viewpoint. A giant stage will host top Thailand rock bands, comedians and dancing girls. Every night throngs of visitors can enjoy the market, feast of seafood and entertainment. You can expect to be offered a free guided tour with a chance to find out about ChaAm’s bird population.

 

Not only local birds; when it is getting cool in the far north of Asia, it’s a time when birds visit on their migratory routes heading south. It’s unfortunate for foreign visitors that this very colourful extravaganza needs to happen at a time of the year when the squid are close to shore and the birds are migrating. That’s because it’s also a time when there are few foreign visitors in town. However largely Bangkok-based Thais always arrive in droves to guarantee a busy and successful Festival year after year.

 

Source: http://www.huahintoday.com/local-news/cha-ams-biggest-annual-festival-kin-hoy-nok-tok-muek/

 

-- Hua Hin Today 2016-09-01