Songkran (Thai New Year)
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
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