Unique ghost festival celebrated in Thailand

Thai Ghost Festival attracts thousands of people to the usually sleepy town of Dan Sai in Loei province, northeast of Bangkok. Phi Ta Khon festival, known as Thailand's Ghost Festival, a part of two-day merit-making ceremony performed by the locals, is one of the country's most colourful and lively festivals.

Every year, thousands of villagers and tourists flock to celebrate the annual festival where participants wear brightly-coloured ghost masks made out of woven rice husk and painted in lurid colours and dressed up in long costumes made from colourful strips of cloth sewn together. The locals participating traditionally try to look as scary as possible which has earned the festival another name as Thailand's Halloween.

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Reuters 11568/06

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[Lillzbe]

im hoping to go next june for this festival

[reverendrichard]

1:40 : catching the ghost fish.

[orathain12]

Loei is Northeast of Thailand, little up from Khonkaen, it's just a small city, but people there are nice and friendly,..you should be there if you really want to know how thai people is?? and real Thai tradition

[bukvithaya]

judging by the music it should be so where in the lao-esan area

[Ball9122]

ตัวเหี้ยอะไรวะ

[Ubon94]

It's in Loei Province North east Esan region not Bangkok

[asianr0se]

So now is time for you to GO BACK WHERE YOU BELONG , GET OUT OF THAILAND !!.

[pattumma]

Are you sure that dosent look like northern bankok thrust me im from thailand ive been notheren bankok before...

[suuuunwoo]

cloth is amazing pretty