Day 1: 3am ceremony to start Festival
One of the elder of the village swims in the river to find a special rock
Then every goes back to the temple to walk around it three times.
At each corner of the temple we stop and the village elder makes and offering to a certian spirt
After circling, the elder goes in to main hall and where he makes an offering to a monk
After the ceremony, monks collect arms from T2T volunters
After offering arms the monks usually pray for you
parts of the parade assemble around 8am
Kids getting ready to the young ghost competition
Preparing for the parade
Bridget with a phi
Ghost masks
More masks being made
Going down to the main temple
Thai's fear ghost houses
Ghosts
The different ghost wear different costumes
Dancing around the temple
The Forest monks of Loei join us for the day
The monks take the volunteers rice planting
Planting rice!
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Thai dancing show at night tells the story of the festival,.
Thai folk dancing
Our Homestay
Getting ready for the second day of the festival.
Main Phitakon parade
Tommy getting in on the action
Lawrence and a strange looking ghost
T2T Volunteers at the festival
Traditional Thai festival pardae
What is that?
Nicole joins in the fun
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Tommy joins in on the dancing
Niclole and Tommy
