The Ubon Candle Festival is one of the most anticipated events of the year here in Ubon and was held yesterday. Features includes huge wax sculptures, a parade, boat race, beautiful traditional Thai dancing, a fair and wax sculptures from teams visiting the festival from out of Thailand; mainly Brazil, France and Nepal.

The Ubon Candle Festival wasn’t as impressive as the Sapporo Snow Festival, yet it was a lot of fun hanging out for the day and I would recommend visiting the festival next year, especially if you are already in Thailand.

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My adorable Thai buddies who really care about the local community.

A few Thai friends of mine invited me to a school that looks after homeless kids, kids with HIV and kids with down syndrome in Ubon over the weekend. This is the first time I have volunteered to do something like this, and was over the moon that the kids had as much fun as I did. We donated coconut ice-cream with sweet sticky rice, and had enough to feed all 250 kids! Great fun :)

I have 2 pictures of this kid. The first he didn’t smile, then I asked him to smile and I got this beauty!

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