Ko Lanta

This guide to Ko Lanta traces the Loy Rua boat-floating ceremony practiced by the Urak Lawoi, the sea gypsies who have called the island Satak for over five hundred years. You'll meet the to mor, the shaman who chants over a hand-built miniature boat, and hear what families tuck inside its hull before it's launched into the tide. It follows descendants of the ancestor To Kiri as they bring their own offerings to his shrine before the ceremony begins.