A full moon festival unlike any I've seen yet: It began with an early morning festival after a day at the temple. A giant bamboo boat that was filled with offerings and alter launched into the lake, and the release of hundreds of paper lanterns - ranging from the size of your head to a VW van. After the monk's dispersed lots of Mon covers of the Beatles & the Ramones were played - a pleasant change from the ever popular Nickleback and Limp Bizkit ...Full moon festivals occur...yep...every full moon. These are your basic day for making merit, where most of a town will visit the temple where they are led in prayer by the head monk or abbot, and then later return with large quantities of food, sugar, coffee, soda, etc. since the monks cannot cook for themselves.
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