Pattaya Fireworks Festival draws large crowd

By Pattaya Mail
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Thousands of people packed Pattaya beach to watch the spectacular fireworks display.

Crowds packed the beach as skydivers fell and rockets soared through the sky for the Pattaya Fireworks Festival.

Chonburi Gov. Pakarathorn Thienchai and Pattaya Mayor Sonthaya Kunplome, along with area administrators, police and tourism officials, kicked off the Nov. 26-27 festival with a skydiving demonstration from Sky Extreme Pattaya.



Traffic on Beach Road was halted each day at 4 p.m. with the fireworks shows beginning after dark.

Friday’s display, each about 20 minutes long, were entitled “Shining Pattaya”, “Believe”, “Seasonal Love” and “Miracle of Heaven”.


Each show featured about 2,200 rockets, with crowds entertainment between demonstrations by Mirr and Paradox on Friday and Gassanova and Cocktail on Saturday.

Saturday’s shows were entitled “Wonderful Pattaya”, “Spirit of the Ocean”, “Be Together”, and “Happiness is All Around”.

It was a carnival-like atmosphere on the beach where families came with their young and old to enjoy a night out taking in the cool breeze and watching the fireworks.



Some of the bars on Beach Road were open and there were expats sitting on the barstools drinking coke and orange juice.



If anything, the beach chair vendors did a roaring night-time business as they were perfect to layback on and look at bursting colorful fireworks in the night sky.


Pattaya Beach looked like the good old times as thousands of people mingled around the food stalls along the beach.









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