Honouring a tradition: A woman placing offerings into a canal during the Loy Krathong festival, which is held as a symbolic apology to the goddess of the river in Bangkok. — Reuters
Thais flocked to rivers and lakes on to release small floats adorned with flowers and candles in an annual festival honouring the goddess of water, with many of the hundreds of thousands of floats ending up clogging and polluting the country’s waterways.
Within hours on Friday, workers began trawling the rivers to fish out the offerings, as paying tribute to the divinity is increasingly proving to be ecologically hazardous.
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