Thai Ghost Festival in Amphoe Dan Sai, Loei province

          Thai Ghost Festival or Phi Ta Khon festival attracts thousands of tourists to Amphoe Dan Sai in Loei province. It is a part of two-day merit-making ceremony practiced by the locals.

Phi Ta Khon mask

Phi Ta Khon mask

Huge Phi Ta Khon mask

Huge Phi Ta Khon mask

Phi Ta Khon festival

Phi Ta Khon festival

Phi Ta Khon

Phi Ta Khon

Phi Ta Khon mask

Phi Ta Khon mask

Phi Ta Khon festival

Phi Ta Khon festival

Phi Ta Khon’s baby hehehe

Guardian of underworld

Phi Ta Khon festival

Phi Ta Khon festival

                            Every year, thousands of locals and tourists come to celebrate the festival where participants wear brightly-coloured ghost masks made out of woven rice husk and painted in lurid colours and dressed up in long costumes made from colourful strips of cloth sewn together.

A lot of photographers

Oversized Phi Ta Khon mask

Scary or funny???

What a cute Phi Ta Khon!!! hehehe

Phi Ta Khon

Ugly one

Big Phi Ta Khon

Big Phi Ta Khon

Mini Phi Ta Khon

Phi Ta Khon festival

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Phi Ta Khon

Holy ceremony

Phi Ta Khon

Phi Ta Khon

Phi Ta Khon

Phi Ta Khon

Phi Ta Khon festival

Phi Ta Khon festival

Ponechai temple

Phi Ta Khon on a motorbike

Monks asking for alms.

Monks asking for alms.

Rice offering

Beautiful pattern

Phi Ta Khon

Phi Ta Khon

Phi Ta Khon

Barbarians

Barbarians

Little Phi Ta Khon having fun!

Posing with a barbarian

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