Festivals · Northeast
Malai Khao Tok Festival 2027, Yasothon
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Yasothon's Makha Bucha garland festival: giant garlands strung from popped rice are offered at Wat Mahathat.
Tentative date
- Dates
- Fri 19 to Sun 21 Feb 2027
- Date status
- Tentative date, from the previous edition or tradition. Not yet confirmed.
- Venue
- Wat Mahathat, Mueang Yasothon, Yasothon
- City
- Yasothon
- Province
- Yasothon
- Region
- Northeast
- Category
- Festivals
- Tickets
- Free
- When it runs
- Annual, at Makha Bucha (February)
- Checked
- Tue 27 Oct 2026 against the official source
About this event
At Makha Bucha, Yasothon's Wat Mahathat hosts a festival found nowhere else: villagers pop rice like popcorn and string the white grains into enormous malai khao tok garlands, some metres long, which are paraded through the town and offered at the temple with traditional performance and a fair. Makha Bucha falls on Sunday 21 February 2027. The 2027 festival programme is published by the temple and province close to the season; the window shown covers the Makha Bucha weekend on the festival's established pattern, so this record is marked expected.
Booking
Booked around the event: hotels, passes, transfers and eSIM. Booking options for this event are being checked and will be added here.
Official source: https://www.thailandfestival.org. Dates checked Tue 27 Oct 2026.