Thailand Water Festival - Important Festival For Anyone In Thai
Keep inside your home on the 13th of April – if you happen to be in Thailand. Or go out if you love water… and becoming wet! For it’s a given that you will not escape the water pistols, the water balloons and buckets of water as the Thais celebrate Songkran, the Thai New Year. Songkran festival is also called Thailand water festival, celebrated with enthusiasm and fervour in Thailand’s cities.
Songkran (in the Sanskrit word Sankranti, symbols of the sun’s shift from one zodiac to another) heralds the beginning of the solar year and is a very important festival for anyone in Thailand. The festival is widely known more than 3 days, ‘Mahasongkran’ on the 13th of April marks the end of the old year, Wan Nao (14th April) is the day after and April 15 is Wan Thaloeng Sok if the New Year begins. Sonkgran is akin to the Indian festival of Holi and the Chinese festival of Ching Ming. Though it is celebrated all over Thailand with fantastic gusto and enthusiam, it is in Chiang Mai that the Thais keep the extremely important ritual of bathing the Buddha and people from all over come to be witness to this event.
Travelling to Thailand is actually convenient and simple, with Bangkok becoming the primary international airport having hundreds of flights from all around the world, including the rest of Asia, Europe and North America.
Travelling to Thailand is actually convenient and simple, with Bangkok becoming the primary international airport having hundreds of flights from all around the world, including the rest of Asia, Europe and North America.
