Phuket Vegetarian Festival: Procession for Jui Tui Shrine (Photo Essay)

October 21, 2012 in Asia, Thailand, Travelogue

  I don’t know if I really have the words to capture this. The following come to mind: Disturbing Nauseating Violent Sad Painful Confusing Loud Cacophonous Overwhelming Very, very foreign […]

Phuket Vegetarian Festival: Mae Kao Beach, Fire Walking (Photo Essay)

October 20, 2012 in Asia, blog, Thailand, Travelogue

I think, in retrospect, what I will remember most is the beat of the drum. Deafening, unrelenting and punctuated with the brassy clang of cymbals. The trembling bodies of entranced […]

Phuket Vegetarian Festival: Mae Kao Beach Procession

October 20, 2012 in Asia, blog, Thailand, Travelogue

**WARNING** Descriptions and photos in this post may be disturbing to some. Please preview for young children. We rolled down the windows on the car, as we crept into town, […]