Phi Ta Khon The Ghost Festival in Thailand.

Participants cover themselves with mud during the procession celebrated on the second day of a three day Buddhist merit making or Phi Ta Khon The Ghost Festival at Phonchai Temple in Dan Sai district, Loei Province, northwestern of Thailand, 08 July 2024. Phi Ta Khon The Ghost Festival or 'Bun Luang', the traditional annual festival is an important day in the lunar calendar before the Buddhist Lent, is part of a Buddhist merit-making holiday known locally in Thai as 'Boon Pra Wate'. The festival is held to worship spirits, the protectors of the village, and to ask for plentiful rain for the coming farming season of a village in Dan Sai of Loei Province.