Kissing Elephants and Loikratong Festival

The elephants look adorable...one more fact: they all paint!!!!! ( watch you tube):>:>:>:>

Not pine tree country!!
This must have been truly spectacular to see. Still, obviously nobody was worried about forest fires!! In the late 1960s, kids in the south Okanagan Valley where I grew up discovered that if you took a cleaner's bag, and fastened it over a light wood or wire cross equipped with a lighted candle right in the middle of the cross, chances were the whole thing would fly, much as illustrated in Amy's photos. They caused no end of UFO reports and drove the police and forestry officials nuts because of the fire hazard. That part of the world is semi-arid pine tree country and tinder dry most of the time. When it's really dry, it's so volatile that signs have actually (honestly) been posted along highways warning the public that because the fire hazard is so great , don't even fart in the woods. Obviously not a problem in this part of Thailand.