Chol Chnam Thmay New Year is the biggest festival of Khmer people. The festival features cultural colours typical of rice farmers of the Mekong Delta. During the festival, local people and Buddhists visit pagodas to make offerings of rice. The festival is based on the Khmer calendar, taking place in the middle of April.  According to locals, this is the time between rainy and dry seasons, considered as the beginning of a favourable year.  The festival expresses the wish for a new year of favourable rain and wind, and bountiful crops./.