It was like songkran festival with firecrackers instead of water. The final day of the Phuket Vegetarian Festival 2007 was an absolute cacophony of intense madness. We have never seen or heard anything like it. Imagine every single firework display that ever took place, all happening at exactly the same time.
There was an incessant roar […]

Even though you know what to expect, and even though you read about the whole thing before, nothing can prepare you for seeing the Phuket Vegetarian Festival with my own eyes.
It doesn’t matter if you think it’s real or not; when you’re there in the thick of the action, the Phuket Vegetarian is as real […]

The whole concept of bladed ladder climbing sounds so gruesome and you may be curious how such a feat could be achieved. Samkong Shrine is as good a place as any to watch the event, so one day in 2007 we headed there for day eight of the Phuket Vegetarian Festival. The show was scheduled […]

The Phuket Vegetarian Festival 2008 will kick off in October for 10 days, with all manner of curious events scheduled to take place daily until Saturday October 20.
The Phuket Vegetarian Festival began in 1825 when Thalang Governor Praya Jerm moved Phuket’s primary town from Thalang to Kathu, an area filled with Thai and Chinese tin […]