Asks fans not to trample them
City workers have begun cleaning and securing the beachfront as the area prepares for the Pattaya Music Festival March 30-April 1.
Sanitation Department Director Sompop Wandee led more than 20 workers down Pattaya Beach Feb. 17 to plant cape lilies along the footpath and attempted to use bricks to protect them from likely trampling. Mayor Itthiphol Kunplome’s goal is to try to show Pattaya is an environmentally conscious city.
The city has planted thousands of lilies along Beach Road and is asking the hundreds of thousands of people expected for the annual music festival this month to not trample them.
Sompop said pinewood fences will also be installed along the entire length of the beach and urged festival-goers to respect the flowers.
He said the city also has allocated funds for toilet and health facilities along the beach during the festival, which draws hundreds of thousands of people annually and has been dubbed by some as the “Pattaya international traffic jam.”
