Phuket’s Old Town is magnetic. I vow to her I’ll be back to visit the festival again, fully vegan. Maybe the firecrackers won’t scare me so much next time. Travel essentials Getting there ...

Religious devotees performed gruesome piercings with massive metal objects during Phuket’s notorious Vegetarian Festival. The nine-day-long event saw followers self-mutilate with knives, skew… ...

Doctors in Phuket, Thailand, are warning vegetarians at the annual Chinese Vegetarian Festival that piercing their faces with knives, axes, spades and beach umbrellas could expose them to health ...

The Phuket vegetarian festival is spread over ten days in the ninth Chinese Lunar month, which can fall either in the months of September or October Picture: NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP/Getty Images ...

Get to the Phuket Rd roundabout early to secure a place; we recommend sitting inside a restaurant as Thai festival-goers throw caution to the wind on this night: firecrackers are everywhere on the ...

Believers on the sun-kissed tropical island of Phuket – famed as a popular holiday destination and party spot – took to the streets to show their devotion at the gruesome vegetarian festival.

“Phuket is a perfect place to have a film festival and we hope to have support from the Tourism Authority of Thailand next year to expand the scope of it. We dare not compare to, say, Pusan, but ...

The vegetarian festival tradition goes back some 150 years. The legend is that a Chinese opera troupe fell ill in Phuket, but after observing a strictly vegetarian diet and performing rituals to ...

The festival, in its second edition, was scheduled to take place at the Coliseum Theaters in downtown Phuket and include a special sidebar on Taiwanese cinema.

With two plastic guns pierced through his cheeks, this festival-goer certainly turned heads as he took part in a parade celebrating the annual vegetarian festival in Phuket on Sept. 29, 2014.