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Rambutan Fair
 This
annual fair is held in August. The first rambutan tree was planted in
Surat Thani in 1926, and this fair celebrates the delicious fruit, which
now grows widely in the area. Highlights include exhibitions of local
products and ornamental plants, floats adorned with rambutan and other
fruits, and deminstrations of trained monkeys who harvest coconuts.
Chak Phra Festival
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This
festival is held in October every year. Surat Thani celebrates the official
end of the annual 3-month Buddhist Rains retreat (Phansa) with the Chak
Phra Festival (literally ‘the procession
of hauling the Buddha image'). The
tradition stems from the belief that the Buddha ascended to Heaven during
Phansa to preach to his mother. The festival marks the Buddha's return
to Earth, and is an occasion for religious merit-making and general
celebrations. Local people organise dazzling land and waterborne processions
of revered Buddha images (to symbolise the Buddha's return to Earth)
and boat races on the Tapi River where long boats, each manned by up
to 50 oarsmen, are ebulliently raced. Religious devotion, spectacle
and merriment combine to make Surat Thani's Chak Phra Festival a memorable
annual event.
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