The Craziest Festival You've Never Heard of In Pictures

The Craziest Festival You’ve Never Heard of In Pictures

Posted by icarus on 20 Oct 2012 / 0 Comment

This is just crazy, nuts.

The Independent explains the festival HERE:

A traditional 10 day vegetarian festival is underway across Thailand, as people across the country carry out a range of celebrations marking a 150 year tradition.

The festival, which is focused on Phuket, celebrates the belief that abstinence from meat and various stimulants during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar will help people obtain good health and peace of mind

Devotees of some groups walk amid exploding firecrackers, self flagellate and carry out shocking self-mutilations, pushing guns, swords and knives through parts of their faces.

Some video:

More pictures:

A devotee of Ban Tha Rua Chinese shrine pierces his face at the annual vegetarian festival in Phuket, Thailand on October 19, 2012.

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I have always had a dream of flying as a young boy; the trick is to fly just high enough for it to matter and yet not so high that you get burned by the sun. I'm also reckless. And I care about truth.