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Bang Koo Shrine Village Procession
Local culture
Free entry
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Family
Sun, 18 October · from 08:00
Ko Kaeo time (UTC+7)
Bang Koo Shrine
Koh Kaew
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Thailand · Phuket · Ko Kaeo
About the event
In the morning, the deities of Bang Koo Shrine are carried in palanquins with their ma song around the shrine’s own neighbourhoods and villages, going from house to house to bless the families who have set up altars with offerings at their gates. It is the neighbourly, smaller side of the festival next to the big processions through town. Come in white and keep to the edge of the road; the time follows TAT's schedule and may shift.
From the editors
Sam Pai Kong (Bang Koo) is over a hundred years old, built by the Chinese of Bangku; the deity's name means “the one who enlightened heaven, earth and water”. The Phuket Vegetarian Festival (Jia Chai) is the nine-day Taoist festival of the Nine Emperor Gods: those who keep it dress in white, give up meat and hold vows of purification, while 39 shrines across the island hold their own rites. A village procession is the smaller form of the street procession: through the ma song, mediums in trance, the gods visit the shrine's own community and bless its homes.