And with this offering to the water goddess, our trip has come to an end. An episode at the Bangkok Airport ensued, where we got stuck for three days trying to get on a flight back to Amsterdam. Then a month after we left Thailand, the region was devistated by the tsunami. Railay and Koh Lanta were both affected and our thoughts are with all the wonderfull people we met while we were there and hope they and their loved ones are allright. So much for a pair of hedonistic queens making an offering to somebody else's gods...
Loy Kratong honors the gods of the water. People send off a little flotilla made of flowers with some incense and a canle down the river and with it all their sins of the past year as to be able to start off with a clean slate.
The 12th full moon of the year marks the beginning of the Loy Kratong Festival. Here are orchids on sale for the flotilla's to be used on the night of the full moon.
Because of the violence in Thailand's Southern provinces, the King had instructed his subjects to fold these paper cranes, to be dumped from planes over the troubled provinces on his birthday.
