On a certain, predetermined day money trees(fig.),
known in thai as
ton phah pah,
are taken to the local temple in a
thod kathin procession
and offered to the monks.
The picture above shows a
templebound motorcade in Mae Taeng district of
Chiang Mai, the one on
the right of a packed thod kathin tree placed in
Wat Phanan Choeng,
on the outskirts of
Ayutthaya.