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Sleep on the river itself: timber bungalows lashed to bamboo pontoons that rise and fall with the Kwai Noi, many off-grid and lit by lantern — the most quintessentially relaxing way to spend a night in Kanchanaburi.
On the full moon of the twelfth lunar month, Chiang Mai releases thousands of glowing paper lanterns into the night sky while rivers fill with candle-lit floats — Thailand's most luminous festival, doubled.