Every year on the 31st of OCtober in Thailand we have a festival called Loy Krathong. Krathong is a Thai term which refers to a piece of banana trunk decorated with flowers, banana leaves, candle and incense sticks. The word Loy means to float in the Thai language. When put together, those two terms simply mean floating banana trunk festival. Why do Thai people want to float a krathong? There are many stories regarding how the festival originated. One of the versions is that Thai people…
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