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The Vegetarian Festival in Phuket, Thailand, also known as The Nine Emperor Gods Festival is a colourful event held in October.
It celebrates the Chinese community's belief that abstinence from meat and various stimulants during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar will help them obtain good health and peace of mind.
The festival is famous for its extreme and sometime gruesome ceremonies, which are held to invoke the gods.
Firewalking, body piercing and other acts of self-mortification undertaken by participants acting as mediums of the gods, have become the most exciting and talked about aspects of the festival.
Directed & Edited by Ryan Jones.
Camerawork by Ryan Jones, Stuart Cooper, Jeff Sainlar & JP Mestanza.