Songkran (Thai New Year) Photo 9

Songkran (Thai New Year)

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April 13th 2009
Songkran is the Thai New Year celbration. For 3 or 4 days, depending where you are, everybody drenches each other with water. Buckets, Super-Soaker guns, hoses and even elephants are paraded around, dipping their trunks in a pond or tub of water and showering anybody in the vicinity. They also cover each other in a white paste made of talc and water (Very Rolling Thunder Review). You ... 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