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Thai fruits - - including mangoes, mangosteens, clurians, pineapples, watermelons, papayas, rambutans, longans, lyches, tamarinds, pomegranates, palm fruits, oranges, pomeloes, jackfruits and more than 20 kinds of bananas - - are available all year round.
From January to April, grapes, jackfruits, java apples, tangerines, watermelons and pomegranates are in season. Next come mangoes, lyches, pineapples, clurians and mangosteens.
From July on, longans will ripen, and also langsats, jujubes, passionfruits, pomeloes, rambutans, sugar apples and again tangerines, grapes, watermelons, bananas, coconuts, guavas and papayas are available thoughout the year.
Some harvests are celebrated in style, with colourful festivals, sometimes featuring a pageant of local beauties.
• In early April,the Paet Riu Mango Festival is organized in Chachoengsao. Probably the most popular and typical of Thai fruits, the mango deserves this honour.
• In May, Songkhla promotes its fruits with a bazaar, fruit carving demonstrations and a Miss Southern Thailand Pageant.
• In June, Chanthaburi exhibits delicious provincial fruits, including the king of them all, the exquisitely delicious durian.
• In September,to honour pomeloes, a fruit and floral float procession is held in Nakhon Pathom, near Bangkok.
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