Life in Thailand PART 1

Sirinnicha Thampradit, a devotee of the Jor Soo Gong Naka shrine, has swords pierced through her cheek as she takes part in a procession during the annual vegetarian festival in Phuket on October 4, 2024. Soon after sunrise in the heart of the old town of the Thai island of Phuket, a swordsman chants an incantation and slowly slides the first of three blades into the right cheek of the woman who sits calmly below him