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A look at a range of food dishes from around Thailand with a rating on just how spicy each one is

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Thailand Celebrates Loi Krathong (ลอยกระทง) and Yi Peng (ยี่เป็ง)

Want to see more photos of Loi Krathong and Yi Peng? Visit the ธุดงคสถานล้านนา, สะพานนวรัฐ (Nawarat Bridge) and Chiang Mai location pages.

Loi Krathong (ลอยกระทง), one of Thailand’s most beautiful annual festivals, is in full swing. Thai celebrants, as well as some Laotians and Burmese, pay homage to the goddess of waters in November each year to coincide with the full moon of the twelfth lunar.

The name Loi Krathong means floating cup of leaf, and describes one of the festival’s biggest events. Participants release small rafts, or ‘krathong’, decorated with flowers and topped by a flickering candle into the waterways of Thailand as a way to seek forgiveness for past sins.

Perhaps the most photogenic part of Loi Krathong is the Lanna (northern Thai) festival Yi Peng (ยี่เป็ง) that coincides with it. Thousands of floating lanterns, or khom loi (โคมลอย), are launched into the air in unison, lighting up the sky. The khom loi are made from a thin fabric, such as rice paper, and have a candle in the center which, when lit, creates enough hot air inside the lantern to lift the khom loi into the sky. The most elaborate Yi Peng celebrations take place in Chiang Mai, the ancient capital of the Lanna Kingdom.

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First morning in Bangkok and I’m in love already, after a breakfast of kanom khok (coconut dumplings, pictured here being prepared) and fresh jackfruit from the local street market.

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Today is the royal ploughing ceremony, an ancient royal rite held in Thailand to mark the traditional beginning of the rice-growing season.

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Monks pray while promoting world peace at the Wat Phra Dhammakaya temple in Thailand.

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Children Activity & Learning Centre, Thailand, by 24H

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Thra Prachan - The Great Flood of Thailand 2011

2011 was the year which Thailand experienced the worst flood in decades. Thra Prachan, a popular river pier in Bangkok, was also affected. The water level on street was 30cm to 1m. Despite the flood water, a lot of activities continued as usual.