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Loy Krathong festival is a lot nicer than Songkran the Thai water festival, partly because it is only 1 evening as opposed to a weeks long endurance test, there are a lot less deaths over Loy Krathong, and you don't get soaked through with dirty disease laden water, so I don't mind Loy Krathong

The only dangerous bits i saw was the Thai's laying on the beach whilst setting off rockets, I could just imagine a few sparks going onto their bodies and them panicking and forgetting where they were pointing the rocket.



The cheapest Krathongs were 30baht and most expensive Krathongs I saw were 80baht although I feel sure the Thai's could make a super duper farang one if you asked them nicely, I didn't take a picture of our Krathong as my girlfriend made it, normally she makes nice ones, for some reason the one she made looked like it had been scavenged out of the dustbin.



Some larger Krathongs.



The American hotdog culture seems to be becoming extremely popular in Thailand, hell, even all the 7/11s sell them, of course with hotdogs comes large weight gains, so don't expect to find too many petite Thai ladies in the future, of course the funny bit is they even deep fry the crab sticks, although I doubt there is too much crab in them.



Some healthy Thai food was available, although I just had pork noodle soup, 30baht and pretty tasty.



Deep fried fish balls and other stuff in batter, whatever happened to the more natural things that Thais used to buy to eat.



Dead Krathongs being washed up on the beach, the Thai kids have it well sussed, nick the money or satangs out of the krathong, take the candles out, then hunt down the next krathong with lit candles in.

One year I will have to get to the beach early to see what sort of mess it is left in.



I like these little hot air ballon things, you could tie a mouse up in a little cage and send him on his way out to sea, anyway this year they seem to have had a bit of a manufacturing fault with the ballons, I would say about half of them caught fire, ie the whole lot burst into flames before they got into the sky.

Some Japanese tourists, the Japanese girl was quite a looker but she sussed I was trying to get her in the picture so tried to hide



And up up and away it goes dripping burning flames onto people as it flies away.

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