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![October 16, 2024: Float attendants in traditional dress sit and wait for the start of the ceremony. Thousands of festival goers gathered at Samut Prakan’s Wat Bang Phli Yai Nai temple for the annual Rab Bua (Lotus Throwing) festival. The defining m](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b82d5465b409b90d4c9cd91/1734166773844-XD8H2MGG72742SX32RK0/_DSC3448.jpg)
October 16, 2024: Float attendants in traditional dress sit and wait for the start of the ceremony. Thousands of festival goers gathered at Samut Prakan’s Wat Bang Phli Yai Nai temple for the annual Rab Bua (Lotus Throwing) festival. The defining moment of the event involves believers throwing lotus flowers at the temples’ Buddha statue which is floated by the crowds in a boat on an adjacent cana