5,000 years of history, three days of fun at Ban Chiang Heritage Festival 2014

One of the most modern, mesmerising and spectacular annual festivals of Udon Thani actually celebrates Thailand’s distant past – the Ban Chiang civilisation, which dates back to the Bronze Age. Though only recently uncovered and documented, it seems that the Ban Chiang civilisation played a major role in the early history of the region of what was to become Thailand – and the annual festival