In Thailand, as a Buddhist country, on Visakha Puja Day is celebrated throughout the country. Religious flags are flown. Religious ceremonies and merit-makings are performed countrywide. In the early morning, people will wake up to prepare food for monks, but when dawn they walk to the temple. They spend times in religious activities such as they attend to sermon during the day. They take part in the candle-lit procession in the evening. Each person carries flowers, three joss sticks and a lit candle in the procession. On this occasion, a grand religious ceremony is also held at Phutthamonthon in Nakhon Pathom Province where the candlelit procession is usually led by a member of the royal family. Buddhists altogather come to take part in the procession.