Well another week in Krabi and we still haven’t made it to Tiger Cave Temple!! Instead we have relaxed on the beach, enjoyed the Loy Krathong Festival and I become a certified Diver!! Loy Krathong festival is celebrated according to the lunar calendar and so the date is different every year. It is a festival of lights with lanterns being launched into the sky and flowers and candles being launched into the water ways. It is to wish for good luck, merit and apologise for the polluting of the water ways by celebrating the festival!! Thais make the floating flowers out of a bamboo stem wrapped and decorated with banana leaves and flowers before 3 incense sticks and a candle is placed in the centre. We were invited to make these by one of the girls
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