About noon, a fire truck went by, spraying the asphalt to cool it. Then about 1000 men in sarongs and polo shirts bearing the palace name went by. A group of about 200 broke off and stayed in front of me, as they needed to switch carriers every block or so. Unlike an American event, there were no bands and there were no satellite dishes. A few reporters could be seen with handheld movie cameras.

The procession began at 1. In order came:
• Policecar used to clear the narrow road of pedestrians
• Drummers
• Standard bearers – about 50
• Male dancers with elaborate head dresses (they danced at the cremation grounds, not on the procession route)
• Gamela band
• Women bearing offerings on their heads
• Women carrying a picture of the late princess
• Boy and girl on thrones born on palanquins
• Smaller bull with a man riding it – the bearers lung at the crowd – they are supposed to be confusing the evil spirits with this unpredictable behavior
• Bigger bull – men are running beside it, throwing holy water
• Gamela band with children
• Small pagoda
• People carrying lanterns and people carrying the royal umbrellas
• Large “room” with purple dragon and about 20 people in it – members of royal family. Dragon has tail of 1 km or so – a thin red cord that is carried by about 50 people after it in a zig zag pattern
• Funeral tower with huge bamboo poles underneath it – takes about 100 to carry it and they change every block or so. The coffin is about Ύ of the way up.

The carriers switched in front of me. When the new carriers hoisted up the tower, with their fresh energy, they began running down the street. Their force and the weight of these huge bamboo poles took out trees along side of the road.