"A devotee of the Ban Tha Rua Chinese shrine with needles pierced through
her arm takes a part in a procession celebrating the annual vegetarian
festival in Phuket."
Photo credit: REUTERS/Damir Sagolj, via The Telegraph.
There is a gallery of photos of this festival of "self-mutilation and vegetarianism" (!!) in The Independent. The photo below the fold [warning - grotesque and guns] was posted in The Straits Times/SE Asia.
