loi krathong
Our final night in Jomtien, and it’s Loi Krathong, the Thai festival of lights, held on the day of the twelfth full moon
of the year. We went down to
Jomtien beach to find it swarming with thousands of people, locals and
tourists. Little family groups were praying together, then launching
intricately constructed bamboo leaf boats with candles and joss sticks into the
lapping waves. Fireworks were
going off all along the beach, and people were sending off those big tissue
paper balloons, powered by candles, that drifted up into the sky in their
hundreds as far as the eye could see, up towards the full moon there beaming
down on us from a clear sky.
Our final night in Jomtien, and it’s Loi Krathong, the Thai festival of lights, held on the day of the twelfth full moon
of the year. We went down to
Jomtien beach to find it swarming with thousands of people, locals and
tourists. Little family groups were praying together, then launching
intricately constructed bamboo leaf boats with candles and joss sticks into the
lapping waves. Fireworks were
going off all along the beach, and people were sending off those big tissue
paper balloons, powered by candles, that drifted up into the sky in their
hundreds as far as the eye could see, up towards the full moon there beaming
down on us from a clear sky. 
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