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Love to Klong Toey

Thailand’s annual Loy Kratong festival was held on Sunday, the night of November’s full moon. I did hope to spend an evening enjoying the atmosphere and getting dozens of shots but I wasn’t really in the mood for it.  I ended up with just a few – enough to get me out of trouble.

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During the evening, millions of people across the entire country go down to the nearest river to float their kratongs, small rafts made from a banana palm and decorated with flowers, a candle and incense. They believe this will bring them good luck throughout the year. In more recent years the gesture of floating a kratong has also become closely associated with romance so I bought myself the most beautiful kratong I could find and watched it float away, carrying my love to Klong Toey.

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In Chiang Mai and the north, the festival is known as Yi Peng and lanterns are released into the night sky. This tradition has also now been adopted in Bangkok.

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One Response to “Love to Klong Toey”

  1. Emma Leafe

    Beautiful new pictures Mick, across all your galleries. Every time I check back to you site, I see some new inspiring aspect of life in SE Asia, that I haven’t seen before …how do you do that ?


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