Loy Kratong is on a dissimilar 24-hour interval each year, falling on the Full Luna of the twelfth lunar month, which is usually sometime inwards November. This twelvemonth (2017) Nov 3rd. Loy Kratong is celebrated all over Thailand alongside specially large ceremonies inwards Bangkok, Sukothai as well as Ayutthaya. Here inwards Phuket, festivities are quite extensive at the principal beaches such equally Patong as well as Karon, as well as anywhere else you lot uncovering H2O - which is everywhere, beingness that Phuket is an island. We usually larn as well as float our kratong at Bang Wad Reservoir, which is the largest reservoir inwards Phuket as well as is non far from our domicile inwards the Kathu expanse of Phuket. The discussion "Loy" agency Float, as well as the Kratong is what you lot laid afloat - read on...
Making Our Kratong
Of cast at that topographic point are stalls all over the identify on the 24-hour interval selling laid upward made kratongs, but nosotros decided to DIY this year, ending upward alongside a kratong that simply nearly floated without tipping over! To brand a kratong you lot volition ask - cutting slices of banana stalk to brand the base, banana leaves to decorate, flowers, incense sticks, candles as well as pins to concord it all together! And voila - you lot accept a kratong...
(above) What you lot ask to brand a krathong - banana stem, leaves as well as flowers
The banana leaves are cutting as well as folded to shape as well as pinned to the base... My married adult woman did all the difficult function - she had never made i earlier - I mean, you lot tin plough over the axe purchase them everywhere really cheaply ... She made a special double decker kratong. I holler upward it turned out beautifully!
(above) Making the krathong - folding as well as pinning leaves onto the banana stem
(above) We made it a double decker krathong
Add around flowers, as well as it's ready... Our identify unit of measurement kratong! Into the kratong nosotros equally good add together small-scale cuttings of pilus as well as nails from identify unit of measurement members which volition float out into the H2O alongside the kratong. Now nosotros simply ask to float it!
(above) Finished krathong
(above) Flowers, incense as well as candles on the krathong
Well, did it float? Yes! See photos of Loy Krathong 24-hour interval :
• Loy Krathong inwards Phuket 2007
• Loy Krathong - More nearly Loy Krathong
Loy Krathong 2017 volition move on Nov 3rd! Sumber http://jamie-monk.blogspot.com
Making Our Kratong
Of cast at that topographic point are stalls all over the identify on the 24-hour interval selling laid upward made kratongs, but nosotros decided to DIY this year, ending upward alongside a kratong that simply nearly floated without tipping over! To brand a kratong you lot volition ask - cutting slices of banana stalk to brand the base, banana leaves to decorate, flowers, incense sticks, candles as well as pins to concord it all together! And voila - you lot accept a kratong...
(above) What you lot ask to brand a krathong - banana stem, leaves as well as flowers
The banana leaves are cutting as well as folded to shape as well as pinned to the base... My married adult woman did all the difficult function - she had never made i earlier - I mean, you lot tin plough over the axe purchase them everywhere really cheaply ... She made a special double decker kratong. I holler upward it turned out beautifully!
(above) Making the krathong - folding as well as pinning leaves onto the banana stem
(above) We made it a double decker krathong
Add around flowers, as well as it's ready... Our identify unit of measurement kratong! Into the kratong nosotros equally good add together small-scale cuttings of pilus as well as nails from identify unit of measurement members which volition float out into the H2O alongside the kratong. Now nosotros simply ask to float it!
(above) Finished krathong
(above) Flowers, incense as well as candles on the krathong
Well, did it float? Yes! See photos of Loy Krathong 24-hour interval :
• Loy Krathong inwards Phuket 2007
• Loy Krathong - More nearly Loy Krathong
Loy Krathong 2017 volition move on Nov 3rd! Sumber http://jamie-monk.blogspot.com