Phuket, Thailand. 19th Oct, 2017. The Chinese shrines around Phuket getting ready for the Vegetarian festival, the festival is observed by the Chinese-Buddhist community by abstaining from meat, alcohol, sex, lying, killing any living thing and anything that may make them look impure in the eyes of the Gods, and to signify purity they all wear white clothing and lighting incense in the temples as offering to the thousands of gods that form the Chinese parthenon Credit: Paul Quezada-Neiman/Alamy Live News

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