Phuket Vegetarian Festival Thailand

This colorful event, held every year in Phuket is a visually stunning religious celebration with vegetarian cuisine, processions and events, the like of which you have never seen before. Strict devotees known as "Mah Song" pierce their bodies and walk in hot coals. Sharp instruments such as spikes, sticks, poles and knives are used in the body piercing, with most piercing their mouth and cheek area, which provides gory entertainment for onlookers.

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