Well, it's all over for another year. The Phuket Vegetarian Festival is probably my favourite event in Phuket, my favourite time of year and the most bizarre festival I have ever seen. Nothing else like it. The festival in 2012 ran from 14th - 24th October starting on the 14th with the raising of the Go Teng poles at all the Chinese shrines around the island, down which the gods are invited to descend. Last year I attended the ceremony for the pole...
