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Loy Krathong Celebration Thailand
November 27, 2015by David Herd
Float a basket
Loy Krathong Celebration Thailand
Loy Krathong Celebration Thailand means “float a basket”, it’s a beautiful Thai ceremony held every November coinciding with the full moon. The baskets are constructed from banana leaves and flowers, some are small and some are large and elaborate.
Hard at work for Loy Krathong Thailand
From 7 am these ladies are busy constructing the Krathongs.
Small Krathongs
The idea is you place a little money in the Krathong then send it out to float and it will take your bad luck with it.
Extra large Krathongs
As you can imagine a lot of work goes into making these fabulous Krathongs.
These girls will work for hours
Sitting on the Beach Road footpath for hours is no problem for these industrious ladies.
Fast asleep
It’s all too much for this young guy, it’s 7’30 am and he is taking a nap.
All hands on deck
Even the kids are recruited to help out granny. 🙂
Loy Krathong Celebration Thailand early evening
Beach Road come alive when the sun goes down. This guy certainly has a lot of stock to sell.
Lanterns are a wonderful sight floating high in the sky. Thai people believe if you make a wish prior to take off, and if the lantern is still alight when it goes out of sight, your wish will come true.
Houston, we have a problem
Loy Krathong Pattaya
These guys initially had a problem with lift-off, however perseverance won out in the end.
The crowd in 2014
The beach was packed last year for Loy Krathong Thailand 2014.
Loy Krathong Thailand 2015
This year I estimate the crowd was only about 10% compared with last year.
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My history, particularly over the last 30 years is dominated by overseas travel. I sold my home in Australia October 20th 2011 and have have been living in Thailand since then. I don’t know where the time has gone? It seems like you go to sleep one night, wake up the next morning, and 20 years have flashed by. Not sure how many years I have left, however I have enjoyed a wonderful charmed life, and if it all ended today I would leave this world with no regrets.
I was born in Sydney halfway through the last century, started my travels in the 60s with the usual U.K. Europe adventure at the age of 20, back to Australia and worked in Sydney, Melbourne & Adelaide in Sales & Marketing with multinational companies including Sanyo, Canon & Remington.
Engaged to be married 3 times and never quite made it to the alter, finally realized by the mid 90s I was not cut out for "long term relationships" so I moved to the Gold Coast in Queensland in January 1987, worked for a couple of banks as a Financial Planner, I took a year off work in 1998 to travel and never went back to full time work again, after 25 fun filled years on the Coast I packed up and moved to Thailand.
What is the purpose of this blog? Well I really want to use it to record my travel experiences & to display my photographs, give and receive travel tips, comment on places I visit, restaurants I eat in and use it to replace the autobiography I intended to write, apart from all that it helps me fill in my day. :)
I moved to Thailand mainly because I wanted to keep travelling while my health allowed me to, there are huge advantages being closer to all the places I want to visit.
Cost of living in Thailand is around 35% of the cost in Australia, plus flights are 50% cheaper because you are much closer to everywhere. ????
Consequently I am able to travel to many more places compared to living in Australia.
Having said all that, it is & has always been my intention to return to Australia when my travelling is finished, I predict this will happen around 2021.
