Phuket Vegetarian Festival – 2009.

Last Year Phuket Vegetarian Festival
Jui Tui  Shrine

Image By : Jamie Monk

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Last day of the Vegetarian Festival in Phuket, Thailand. Alter carriers dance in explosions at the Phuket Vegetarian Festival Street Procession, Phuket Town, Thailand. Young men carry alters of the deity images though town which culminates at central locations where merchants cover them with huge strands of firecrackers and larger explosives. The louder and longer blasts are best to drive away evil spirits. The experience is deafening and engulfs the men and alters in a painful barrage of fire and smoke.
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Flickr Images – Phuket Vegetarian Festival 2009

Flickr Images – Phuket Vegetarian Festival 2009

Posted By : Jamie Monk

http://jamie-monk.blogspot.com/2009/10/vegetarian-festival-procession-photos.html

Street processions on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th October for Jui Tui and Kathu shrines.
Photos taken in Phuket town and Kathu village (about 5km outside town).
Items are from between 26 Oct 2009 & 31 Oct 2009.

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