Hello and welcome to another post,
Today I wanted to share some photos from the Loi Krathong festival. A friend of mine told me about it and I thought it sounded really interesting. It's an annual festival that is celebrated throughout Thailand. It is about paying respect to the goddess of water and the Buddha. People will gather around rivers, canals, and such to release these floating lanterns into the water. The lanterns are called Krathongs and can be made up of different things ranging from banana tree trunks to styrofoam. This is a very basic description of it.
The festivities go on for an entire week but we only went out for two days. We went to a place near the river for the first day where they were organizing a light show and a small concert. The band that was playing consisted of three kids and two adults. They played cover songs and it was pretty awesome. As you can see the light show was amazing too.
I had a nice time there and it was a lot of fun just walking around and looking at the different stands and what they were all selling. That has probably turned into my favorite thing to do in Thailand. Just walk around huge markets and look at stuff that people sell lol. I very rarely buy anything though.
Next year I wanna be more prepared for these festivities and go to a cool place where they organize something big for this festival. This was awesome as a first time though. The second day was probably even more fun since we... well you'll have to wait until next time to see what we did.
This stand was displaying these amazing carvings she had done. Looks very difficult and I'm sure this takes a lot of talent and hard work. I wonder how long it takes to carve a watermelon like that.
This was probably my favorite out of the light displays. After walking around some more we decided to go home and prepare for the next day of Loi Krathong. This next photo is kinda stupid but I just thought it was a little funny.
That was it for this post. Next year I wanna have the best Krathong out of all and I'm gonna float it somewhere really cool. See you in the next post where we will visit another cool place. Also, I do realize that these posts are a little bit late since the festival was a couple of weeks ago now but I have been very busy with a move so I only got to post these now. I hope you still enjoy the photos though.
Let me know what you think in the comments below!
Peace, Straw