Songkhran

The most awaited festival of the year – SONG KHRAN. It’s the old Thai New Year and they celebrate it for three days – April 13-15. Mornings are for temple rituals but the afternoons are for water fights on the streets with pickups and motorcycles making the rounds. Blaring music and liquor are also taken out to the streets.

This is my first Songkhran experience and I had to party with the crowd to get a personal analysis of the fun. It was scary in the Khao Sarn road part where the mob was really thick and rowdy. I ventured there with Nick, Annie, Martin and Bigot and we got separated in the melee.

Here are the pictures that I was able to shoot at a safe and protected distance from the water fights.