The Vegetarian Festival in Thailand is in full swing and and many people, dressed in white, are visiting their local Chinese shrines. Tonight I was delighted to be shown around the neighbourhood of @BkkGreg who lives on the edge of Chinatown in Bangkok.
For ten days I am also taking part by only eating vegetarian food. But, the festival is more than that and all the Chinese shrines around Thailand are crowded every night with worshippers. One thing that they are doing is lighting candles.
And not just your ordinary candles. Some of them were massive. These ones here are not made from wax and they use light fuel to set them alight. They are about a meter and a half long and seemed to weight a lot.
After these candles had burned down a certain length, a group of men were on standby to carry them away to dump them into this furnace alongside the river in Bangkok. I’m not sure what the difference is between these candles but I will try and find out.
- Posted from my iPhone
better than KFC and McDonalds lol but the name...