In Brazil - a colorful carnival, in Japan - Sakura flowering, in China - the celebration of the Chinese New Year. Already a long time, noble travelers move around the world in accordance with the schedule of the most significant and unusual holidays. In the fall, the Phuket is usually in their chart. After all, here in October-November goes the most unusual festival on the planet. It is called peaceful - vegetarian festival. However, what is happening in the days of his celebration can turn in shock even people with iron nerves.
Often young guys are often involved in bloody rituals.
... The vegetarian festival takes place on Phuket for two hundred years. During solemn processes, people can observe people who are in a state of trance to pierce their bodies with different sharp objects - from ordinary pins to a huge saber and knives. And in the same state of the trance, active participants in the festival bathe in burning oil, walk along coals, blades and nails. It is possible to look at their dangerous dances in almost all Chinese temples. And processions from people who stick together the most unthinkable items from the most unthinkable parts of the body pass throughout the island.
Members of the processions pierce their bodies with different acute objects - from ordinary pins to huge saber and even umbrellas.
Spectacle, you need to tell you, frightening. Therefore, children, pregnant women and in general people are overly impressionable access for the holiday striculous is prohibited. So a year ago I did not work at the festival. But this time, apparently, in the quality of compensation, I was able to not only see the processions yourself, but also to see with my own eyes how preparations for the procession are being prepared. On our street next to a small Chinese temple daily hours from five in the morning, the festival participants introduced themselves to the trance. I did not photograph this action (I still seemed to me that it was somehow too intimate), but he looked pleading. Scratching it looks, that's what I say. When the young guys after the ritual dances suddenly turn into a zombie, whose movements slow down in their eyes, and the look becomes somehow stupid, it becomes not very comfortable.
Since the processions are accompanied by the blasts of Petard, the smoke curtain covers the whole island.
The procession itself is with the explosions of Petard and salutes - it looks like as colorful. It is not surprising that every year a vegetarian festival attends an increasing number of tourists. After all, today there are not so many similar holidays on the planet, which truly tick the nerves. Therefore, a couple of years ago, Ksenia Sobchak specially flew to Phuket to admire the bloody processions. And still does not get tired of repeating that this festival is what you need to see at least once in my life.
In the house opposite our neighbors are preparing for the ceremony.
In general, Phuket has long been Mecca for people known. Not every week (and in season - and even more often) we meet here celebrities of different texts. And some of them make our lives here much more fun ...
By the end of the festival week throughout Phuket, there are tables with different goodies - so that the gods can have a snack.
Continued ...
Read the previous history of Olga here, and where it all starts - here.