Sunday, October 12, 2008

Phuket vegetarian festival

Another interesting tidbit we ran across.  Every year there is a 10-day vegetarian festival in Thailand.  Apparently there are many street-vendors that sell delicious vegetarian food for the duration--sounded good to us!  There is also a religious processesion that visits a series of temples and monks (I believe?) pierce their cheeks with all manor of swords and other sharp objects.  This aspect of the festival I found, to be honest, pretty disturbuing.  Aaaaand here are some pictures!

http://www.phuket-photos.com/frameme.php?page=vegetarian-festival.htm

Right now our plan is to be in Thailand for next year's festival (though we probably won't be in phuket).  Should be interesting.

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