The auspicious Buddhist holidays Asarnha Bucha Day and Khao Phansa (Buddhist Lent), also called “Vassa”, will be observed next Friday and Saturday (July 27-28), respectively.
As both are major religious holidays, the sale of alcohol is banned across the nation on both days.
Asarnha Bucha Day and the beginning of Buddhist Lent have been mandated “National No Alcohol Days” since 2009 by an order that also banned the sale of alcohol on the major Buddhist holidays Makha Bucha Day and Visakha Bucha Day.
A national cleanup day held in honour of HM The King, with the event led by the Prime Minister and the Cabinet, will be held near Government House next Thursday (July 26), with separate Big Cleaning Day projects conducted in every province across the country on the Saturday (July 28).
To honour the occasion, a merit-making ceremony will be held nationwide at the same time, 7am.