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Sunday The Fourteenth A big day if you are a Chinese lover, but where to go in Hua Hin?
hua hin, thailand All over Thailand this Sunday, people will be marking the joint celebration of the Chinese New Year and Valentines Day, which fall on the same day this year. However, while there are big events going on in places like Pattaya, Phuket, Chiang Mai and Bangkok, as well as a whole host of other towns and cities, Hua Hin appears to be strangely reticent about this particular event, certainly in terms of any officially organised celebration. The tourismthailand.org website tells us that “Thailand’s top destinations celebrate Chinese New Year in style with magnificent arts and colourful cultural performances presented by artists from 10 provinces in China. These visiting groups provide rare insights into China’s vast cultural diversity with authentic demonstrations of Shaolin Kung Fu and acrobatics,
relatively low Chinese population or few Chinese tourists coming here? It does seem to be a shame that more is not made of this event, but hopefully you will still encounter the odd firecracker or even a lion or dragon dance on the day. AWOL would like to say Gong Hay Fat Choi (Cantonese for ‘May you become prosperous’), Sawasdee pee mai (Thai for ‘Happy New Year), and Happy Valentines Day, just for good measure! xxxx
INSIDE AWOL Chinese opera, traditional puppet demonstrations, mask-changing dances, and Chinese music performances. There are also tribal dances from Tibet and Mongolia.” It appears from that statement that Hua Hin is not considered a ‘top destination’, but perhaps the implication is that there is a
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