Outside Buddhist temple, firecracker preparations
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- Creator
- Kristin Post
- Date created
- September 28, 2000
- Duration
- 0:55
- Location
- Trang, Thailand
- File
- MP3
- License
- This recording copyright ©2000. Terms of use
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Part of a ten day vegetarian festival. In the Buddhist temple courtyard, boys are putting firecrackers onto long bamboo poles. Later, during a different part of the festival, these strings of firecrackers will be detonated, creating a deafening noise, lots of sparks and a fog of smoke. Presumably, putting the firecrackers on these tall poles keeps the dangerous firecrackers at a safer distance from the people below.
Though I am not sure what is being said, everyone is clearly enjoying himself.
