Songkran!
April 17th 2011 Jesse and I were lucky enough to be traveling Thailand during Songkran, the Thai New Year Festival. It goes on for about 5 or 6 days. A local suggested to me that its ending date has a lot to do with when people run out of money and are too hungover to continue the party. We spent the festival in Chiang Mai and Chiang Khong, in Northern Thailand.
Chiang Mai is Thailand's cultural and intellectu
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