Krabi - Thai New Year -(Songran)

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Friday 13th:
So, we stayed in Krabi just to see a Thai new year. In a word it's wet. We got up and the first thing we had was holy/blessed water tipped on our shoulders for good luck. Outside the hotel a man was cleaning all the buddhist relics and statues of Buddha with the same type of water. The water is basically mixed with some type of powder and smells of incense sticks.


After breakfast we joined the kids outside and had a water-fight, and then went for a walk to get some photo's. On our way around people rubbed a thick powdery-paste on our faces. The paste is also made from incense-smelling stuff and is intended to cleanse your spirit.
It was interesting to see it all first hand, and all good fun, if a little wet. The pictures show it all though.


Because Matt wanted to use a lot of the images for his masters, they are mostly, in general, shot in NEF(RAW), so are too big (at about 20mb each) to put on the blog, but we did get some smaller ones too.

Then we booked our bus to Hat Yai for tommorow.

We'll both miss Thailand, highlights being Chaing Mai, Koh Tao and Krabi, the worst part by a long way being Bangkok (Especially Khaosan Road area) although we both seem to miss Cambodia more and Laos isn't the sort of place you get that fond of in a short space of time. Hong Kong was also great, but now we're both looking forward to Malaysia.

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Photos

Leanne playing with kids
These kids parents own the hotel we are staying at.

Matt on a wooden bike.
Krabi is full of bizarre artwork like this.

Traffic lights.
The traffic lights in Krabi have some Hercules type man statue on them. At one junction kids ran up every time cars stopped and soaked the drivers.

The painting people
these are some of the people that rubbed incense paste on our faces.