Krathong Sai

Krathong Sai is a riverside sculpture on the Ping River in Mueang Tak’s Nong Luang subdistrict, a short walk from the Rim Sai Than Lan Krathong Sai plaza where Tak’s Loi Krathong Sai Lai Prathip festival launches its floating lantern chains each year. Don’t confuse it with a garden — older listings for this address describe lotus ponds and medicinal-plant beds, but there’s no evidence any such garden exists here, and the Thai name itself, ประติมากรรมกระทงสาย, translates literally as “Krathong Sai sculpture.”

What’s confirmed is the location and the connection: a public artwork on the same riverbank stretch that hosts Tak’s signature festival, within walking distance of central Tak town. The festival it references is genuinely unusual — instead of releasing single krathongs one at a time, local teams string dozens of coconut-shell lanterns into long illuminated chains that flow down the river together, a format found nowhere else in Thailand. Recent editions ran 2-5 November, timed to the lunar Loy Krathong calendar rather than a fixed date.

Outside festival week, this stretch of riverbank is a quiet public spot rather than a destination in its own right. It’s worth the short walk from Rim Sai Than Lan Krathong Sai if you’re already there, but the specifics of the sculpture — its size, subject, and dedication — aren’t well documented in English or Thai sources, so treat any description beyond “riverside artwork tied to the festival” with caution until it’s been checked on the ground.

Watch out: Details about this specific site are thin online. If precision matters for your trip, confirm with Tak’s provincial tourism office before treating it as a must-see rather than a minor stop.

The sculpture sits a short walk from Rim Sai Than Lan Krathong Sai, the plaza where the festival’s lantern chains actually launch, and both are an easy trip from central Tak.