People light candles and incense, pray and make offerings of flowers and fruit at a Buddhist shrine outside the Central World shopping complex in downtown Bangkok. This seemed like an odd place to pray for enlightenment. Read Bangkok's 15-course street meal.
A brother and sister stand solemnly as their parents speak to them before they release their krathongs (handmade rafts) into the Chao Praya River. Tradition for Loi Krathong Festival is that one's wrongdoings and troubles are released at the same time. Read: Loi Krathong Festival: Troubles Down the River, Lanterns in the Sky © UncorneredMarket.com
