Songkhran - i just can't get enough of you

Why does the Thai new year fall on a day that is 38 degrees Celsius? Yeah, it was super hot and so these blokes hopped on their bicycles and took a ride through the streets of Bangkok.

They shared the road with some guys with white powder on the face...

Some with water guns and backpacks holding water...

...and buckets of white powder suspension with 4 guys to a motorbike all without safety helmets...

by the roadside were people whose only goal was to douse anyone who passed by...

most often they had barrels of water and ice

some just had drinking water bottles...

 ...which can't hold much, but the effort was worth it.

 this guy just stood there with a 200ml water gun. One 20ml squirt was all he could muster.

another guy blasted away with his bucket...

these guys took it to another level with their mixture of water and white powder...

that blotted out my sight for a few seconds.

a  mother and daughter tandem enjoying the afternoon.

this is the Rambutri - khao sarn area with a band playing and the soaked revelers all massed together

dinner by the road at Thewes on the way home... yeah that's durian.

extracting the money from a ziplock plastic bag.

 a final douse in front of Yanhee...

 ... 31 km done and it feels like we're kids again. 

HAPPY SONGKHRAN!