vegetarian+festival

Where: Jui tui temple, th ranong, phuket town, puket thailand.
 * __The phuket vegetarian festival__

When: The first nine days of the ninth month in the chinese calendar

Why:  The event marks the beginning of the month 'taoist lent', when devout followers of the tao abstain from eating meat. the festival with processions, cultural performances and religous offerings on five chinnese temples. the religious fevour includes amazing acts that are a little bit scary! this includes walking on hot coal, climbing knife blade ladders and peircing there skin with sharp objects. people who participate in this creepy event appaerently bring taoist emperor gods to earth. What they use to peirce their skin with: they use any sharp objects eg: sharpened tree branches, spears, slide trombones, and daggers.  Fast But Fun Fact:  Some people even hack their tonges with a saw or axe blade continously. ||