Phuket Vegetarian Festival
Nine gods, nine days, one shared feast.
When is Phuket Vegetarian Festival?
From October 5 to October 13.
National
- Thailand
What is Phuket Vegetarian Festival?
The Phuket Vegetarian Festival — known locally as the Nine Emperor Gods Festival — transforms Phuket, Thailand into a vibrant hub of devotion each year in early October. Believed to have begun in the early 19th century when a Chinese opera troupe recovered from illness after adopting a strict vegetarian diet and honoring the Nine Emperor Gods, the festival is now famous for daily processions, fire-walking, body-piercing rituals, and streets filled with yellow-flagged vegetarian stalls. Tens of thousands of participants and tourists gather to share in the spiritual purification and the food.
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