Phuket Krabi Trang Vegetarian Festival

Phuket Vegetariuan Festival
Date  :  17 - 26 October, 2009
Venue :  Various Chinese shrines, Phuket

The Thai-Chinese in Phuket have long passed on the vegetarian festival to purify mind and soul by refraining from meat consumption and meditating. Symbolising the presence of the deities throughout the festival are 9 lanterns lit up and placed aloft on Ko Teng poles. On the 6th day of the festival, there will be religious processions and incredible displays of face-and-body piercing. On the last day, there will be a “Koi Han” ceremony to exorcize ill fortune and a farewell ceremony for the deities at night.
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Krabi Vegetarian Festival
Date   :   18 -26 October, 2009
Krabi Vegetarian Festival Join the annual meritorious festival. Observe religious precepts and eat vegetables for 9 consective day and nights

Observe the local beliefs of the people as displayed in the procession to 40 shrines to request for good luck for Krabi city on 21 October 2009 as from 12.00-17.00 hrs.
at Krabi City pilar Shrine (In front of Kribi provincial Hall)
For more infomation: Contact Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) Krabi Office Tel. 0 7562 2163 Fax. 0 7562 2164 E-mail: tatkrabi@tat.or.th

Trang Vegetarian Festival
Date  :  17 - 26 October, 2009
Vegetarian Festival is a traditional festival of the Chinese in Trang, held around October every year on a full-moon night. Thais of Chinese heritage would become a vegetarian (no consumption of meat and certain kinds of vegetables) and dress in white for 9 days and nights. This is to bring good fortune and make merit. Throughout the 9 days and nights, the spirit in the “medium” would go out and give blessing (some call it out touring) to households where there are offerings set out in front. The procession bearing the medium must light thousands of firecrackers, creating a deafening din. The medium would also perform supernatural feats to show that the spirit is in him
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