Extreme Piercing at Vegetarian Festival Phuket
Probably the most fascinating and also somewhat gruesome festivals in the world, the Phuket Vegetarian Festival is best known for its aesthetic displays of unusual body piercings. You may see devotees with tire irons through their cheeks, or large spikes driven through their tongues. The festival is held for just over a week annually during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, falling somewhere in October. This year it runs from the 11th to the 19th of October.The Phuket Vegetarian Festival...
2-faced pig
In the odd animals hall of fame, this little piggy takes the cake. Pigs are a sign of fertility in China, and in the Year of the Pig, this piglet got more than his fair share, being born with two mouths, two noses and three eyes. Liu Shuping, a farmer specialising in raising pigs, presented the new-born piglet in Xi an, in north-west China’s Shannxi province yesterday. But it’s not unique. Only last month there were reports of a pig being born in Quanzhou in East China’s Fujian province with two...
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