Third Chim Boo Chak @ Cha-am Festival

This festival has been running for annually. It is an initiative by local people to keep a stock of live crabs in the estuary near the fishing port at the north end of the town. Anybody can turn up and obtain crab live straight from the ocean. A purpose build stage had been set up and the area, the size of a small football stadium, filled with tables and chairs, enough for a couple of hundred people. Around the perimetre there are food stalls offering all manner of delicacies that we only wonder about back home such as fish, crab, prawns, shellfish and squid cooked Asian style including Thai, Chinese, Japanese and Muslim.