The Songkran Festival in thailand is the Thai Newyear :
12 to 14 April.
If you live in Thailand how do you celebrate? Who do you visit and what do you eat?
Would you recommend that foreigners come to Thailand at this time of the year or is it best avoided?
Has anyone travelled in Thailand at this time of the year? Would you recommend it? What was it like?
Songkran is the Thai traditional New Year which starts on April 13 every year and lasts for 3 days. Songkran festival on April 13 is Maha Songkran Day or the day to mark the end of the old year, April 14 is Wan Nao which is the day after and April 15 is Wan Thaloeng Sok which the New Year begins. At this time, people from the rural areas who are working in the city usually return home to celebrate the festival. Thus, when the time come, Bangkok temporarily turns into a deserted city.
Reply to this I was in Thailand during the Songkran Festival around 10 years ago.
In most places people just threw water on me whenever I was on the street. On the Khao San Road in Bangkok it was a bit more than that. Everytime I left the guesthouse I was smeared from head to foot with wet chalk and had water thrown on me continuously until I got back inside. I did not bother to wash it off after a while. If I had insisted on wearing unchalked clothes it would have been a laundry nightmare. :D
Mel
Reply to this We just left Bangkok and I can assure you that it is not desserted or without throwing of water or smearing of chaulk. We were holed up in our hotel for a couple of days, we arrived during the height of the fesitval and had to make our way down Khoasan road to our hotel, I was carrying a cardboard box that had some stuff we were going to send home, it almost melted in my hands before we reached the hotel.
Fun to watch for a couple of days but we were glad it ended before we left to Vietnam on April 16, we escaped without a squirt or smear.
cheers
Reply to this if you cant beat em join em. silom road around sala deang skytrain and soi 4 is the place to go to get fully immersed, literally. however there are many places you can go without any signs of water, like siam and its many indood malls
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