San Chao Jui Tui

I went for 9th Dragon Emperor or Vegetarian festival and spend last two nights. Very crowded and noisy but great experience. The second was fire works blasting non stop for 4 hours and the atmosphere was surreal. Any devotees should make a pilgrimage there once.

At a walking distance from old town, I visited in the evening. It closes at 8. Very beautiful decorated Chinese temple witnessing history of Phuket. There are statues of lions at the entrance of the main temple. These statues have rolling stone balls in their mouth. I wonder, how these balls are carved out inside the mouth. There is a huge long trunk of a tree kept horizontally with a garland on it. I could not get the significance of it.

Visited February 2025 for Chinese New Year "Lucky Day" Free entry. It is best to visit before 6 p.m. You can buy offerings and fireworks 🎆 🔥 on-site.

An important taoist temple in the region. Must visit if you are here. Inside, there is also a small shrine for the goddess of mercy. Make a donation to support if you can.

A famous nine emperors shrine in Phuket. Very happening during the annual vegetarian festival in town. One must visit to feel the festival atmosphere and holiness.

Beautiful shrine and great atmosphere. We were there in October and there was famous vegetarian festival in Phuket There were crowds of people but everything was so calm and good 😌

As you approach the entrance, admire the carvings and detailed murals on the grey marble walls outside. Inside, you wander through several colourful halls with an array of deities, paintings and flags. It's beautiful and I felt so ignorant not knowing more about these religions, when I watched the devotees streaming in and out, shaking the "fortune sticks" and lighting incence sticks. The place is so rich in colour and symbolism. Amazing.

Vegetarian Festival Lived with the people of Phuket for a long time. more than a hundred years Vegetarian diet started from The opera troupe is from China. to show at Kathu District and having a vegetarian ceremony there for the first time Due to the outbreak of epidemics, a lot of people died and got sick. but it is strange None of the people in the opera troupe were sick. after an inquiry The opera troupe worshiped Chinese gods and ate vegetarian food, abstained from meat, and performed fasting for nine days and nine nights. and a miraculous event occurred that made the villagers in that area recover from the plague. And it was asked that the opera troupe to convey the complete vegetarian ritual. Money was then raised for the opera troupe to travel back to China to bring the ritual and vegetarianism back to Phuket. Three months later, after the villagers had waited in despair, a junk boat arrived at the sa-phan -hin bridge. and someone from the opera came back with Statues of gods and incense burners have been brought to Kathu District, where vegetarian events will be held on the calendar on the first day of the ninth lunar month of every year, and the tradition of vegetarianism in Phuket is well known to foreign countries. Every year, Thai and foreign tourists come together to dress in white. to participate in the vegetarian festival It is another important highlight of Phuket Province.