Grand parade to the sea

GRAND VOYAGE.....Devotees piled up and arranged hunderds bags of golden and silver offering papers around the ‘imperial boat’ before a final praying ceremony begins which later ended with the setting fire of the offering papers.

THE nine-day Kew Ong Yeah Festival culminated with the Nine Emperor Gods being given a rousing send-off by thousands of devotees along Pantai Bersih in Butterworth.

A crane was deployed to hoist the ‘Emperor Boat’ filled with prayer paraphernalia, rice, sugar, vegetarian dishes and other essential items from its float before placing it in the water.