We visited Wat Pho Chai on July 30th. It was the candle festival. Lay people come to build big (just over 4 feet tall) candles. For a donation of 10 - 20 Baht, you select a wax medallion with the sign of your birth year in the Chinese calendar stamped on it. You write your name in the wax on the back of the medallion. Then you join the line of people placing their medallions in a basket to be melted, select a small laddle, scoop out melted wax, and pour a little from your laddle in each of 9 or 10 tall candle molds. The idea is that everyone's wax is melted together to give the monks sufficient light to get through the next 90 days when they are confined to thier monasteries for the rainy season. The temple was alive with people. It was a holiday and we felt welcomed by eveeryone.
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