The people of Ubon Ratchathani are the same as other Buddhists – when Khao Phansa Day arrives, they take candles and present them to monks. In the past, when it was impossible to buy ready-made candles, villagers would use beeswax taken from bees’ nests. They would melt the beeswax and then immerse a length of cotton to be used as a wick into the molten beeswax. Next, the wax would be left until it was cool enough to be rolled by hand, surrounding the wick completely.
Following that, the candles were cut to the required length and they were then ready for presentation to monks.