Our lovely hotel staff invited us to go to the Maka Bachu ceremony with them this evening. Our hotel is inside a temple complex but the temple itself isn't usually open to the public. They made us a posy of flowers each and we had a candle too. We stood listening to the monks chanting then our candles were lit and we followed the monks in a procession, 3 times around the outside of the temple. Then shoes off, into the temple and shuffle forward on our knees up to a dais where monks received the flowers. Shuffle backwards on knees (surprisingly difficult while trying to avoid bumping in to those behind) out of the temple to add our candles to all the others. There were children running around with lit candles, everyone from babies to the very elderly, and most had their phones out the whole time, taking selfies, making calls regardless of the solemn ceremony. A monk was even filming the proceedings on his phone.