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With Halloween approaching, celebrating this October holiday in Phuket is a recommended choice, because there are also other grand popular festivals celebrated in October in Phuket. You can spend a couple weeks in Phuket to enjoy those popular Thai traditional festivals before losing yourself in Halloween horrible party in Phuket.

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Phuket Vegetarian Festival

It is a colourful event held over a nine-day period in October, celebrating the Chinese community's belief that abstinence from meat and various stimulants during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar will help obtain good health and peace of mind.

The Ceremonies

The most exciting aspects of the festival are the various, gruesome sometimes. Ceremonies are said held to invoke the gods, including firewalking, body piercing and other acts of self mortification undertaken by participants acting as mediums of the gods. Those ceremonies have become more spectacular and daring as each year goes by.