Lanterns ascending to sky

Loy Krathong Festival, Chiang Rai, Thailand 11/2/09

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November 3rd 2009
Today is the Loy Krathong Festival in Thailand. It's the festival of lights and is celebrated nationwide like our Fourth of July. Fireworks, parades and food except the Thai make a float that you light and send down the river and light paper lanterns to soar into the sky. It's celebrated on the full moon night of the 12th lunar month (November). The Krathong (a vessel made of banana tree trunk) ... read more

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more