Buddhist Lent - first day (Khao Phansa)

Kinyin and myself were lucky enough to watch the monks at a local temple accepting offerings. The offering mainly took the form of sticky rice  , money and sweet biscuit.  The day before Lent I noticed on the streets pop up stores opened selling masses of the sweet biscuits that were used as offerings.

Note young boys collecting offerings in the form of sweet biscuits that the monks do not want - some of these boys have enough sweet biscuits for the year -  The monks tended to keep rice and money offerings.