On December 5, Thailand will celebrate the King Rama IX the Great birthday, the main national holidays one.

There will be festivities and parades, in Bangkok there will be the Royal Guard taking the oath a ceremony. The alcoholic beverages sale and the bars operation is limited.

King Rama IX the Great ruled the country from 1946 to 2016. Revered as a demigod. He had many talents: he was an inventor, design engineer, artist, photographer, best-selling author and translator, musician. He created a modern irrigation system in the country, began to develop dairy farming, turned Thailand into the largest exporter of rice, reduced the poverty rate by 7 times.