Loy Krathong is a full moon festival held in Thailand based on the lunar calendar. There is quite a bit of history to this event that actualizes into small decorated banana trunk boats with a candle being floated in the waterways. We did this in Laos as well but it was obviously on a different date. It is also appropriate to let off sky lanterns as pictured below. You light the paper that has been soaked in oil, let the lantern fill with hot air, and the let it go into the night sky.
We tried to send off 12 or so lanterns at the same time, but they fill at different rates and have to be released so they don't catch on fire!
You hear a lot about good luck at the festival, if your lantern flys far and your small banana boat floats a long ways then the next year will be full of good luck. ......If you lantern get's stuck in a treat then you must be on guard.
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