More celebrating around the moat

Songkran: our new favorite holiday!

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April 12th 2008
I had planned this trip so that we would be in Chiang Mai for Songkran (the Thai New Year.) Chiang Mai is apparently the place to be for Songkran, much like New Orleans is the place to be for Mardi Gras or New York is the place to be for New Year’s Eve. I figured it would either be a great idea, or an absolutely terrible idea, and I think we would all agree that it was an excellent idea, th ... read more

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more