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Christmas in Thailand – The Royal Gazette

Created: Dec 30, 2021 07:59 AM

From left: Nina London, friend Guy Harriman and husband Bill Rosser at Lanna Yoga, Chiang Mai, Thailand (Photograph supplied)

Christmas Day in Thailand was unlike any Christmas I have ever experienced.

We could hear the faint sound of monks chanting in the nearby temple, and Bill and I looked at each other, smiling because there was nothing ‘Christmassy’ to do. Thailand is a Buddhist society and December 25 is just another day.

Nonetheless, we received an invitation to a Christmas light party hosted by our friend, Guy Harriman, and an invitation to anything from Guy is an event not to be missed.

We drove through the crumbling 12th century stone walls of the ancient capital of Chiang Mai, weaving through endless rice fields, where farmers dragged ploughs behind water buffaloes. We crept slowly into small villages crowded…

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