Songkran Festival!

Can you imagine that you throw water into somebody's face and he or she still smiles and laughs back to you?

We can do that! Let me introduce you "Songkran Festival in Thailand"

For short brief, according to Thai lunar calendar, April 13th is Thai New Year and we call it "Songkran Day". For starting our new year, we will go making merit at Thai temples and there will be the celebration there as well.  

Since April is the hottest month of the year, back to the time people will pour little water or spill some Thai fragrance (Nam Oop) to refresh each other. But now it has changed, it became a water fight! Even a foreigner who lives in Bangkok wrote his blog, Bangkok seemed to be one giant water “fight”. 

Back to me in San Francisco, some Songkran Festival celebrations took place in here too (mostly in Thai restaurants), but I didn't go and wasn't wet at all ;(.

 

Credit:Big Water Fight

Huhhhhh...I miss being wet in Songkran Day so bad!