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Water fights, Chiang Mai Songkran festival in Laplae, Uttaradit. Thai New Year [1]: 802 [2]: 127 or Songkran [1]: 802 (Thai: เทศกาลสงกรานต์, pronounced [tʰêːt.sā.kāːn sǒŋ.krāːn]), also known as Songkran Festival, [3] Songkran Splendours, [2]: 127 is the Thai New Year's national holiday. Songkran is on 13 ...
Theravāda New Year, also known as Songkran, is the water-splashing festival celebration in the traditional new year for the Theravada Buddhist calendar widely celebrated across South and Southeast Asia in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, parts of northeast India, parts of Vietnam, and Xishuangbanna, China [2] [3] begins on 13 April of the year.
In Vietnam, Lễ hội làm chay is another water festival mainly celebrated in the parts of the Southern Vietnam. It’s only held at January 14-16 of the Vietnamese lunar calendar, different to the one celebrating on April. During festivals, along the roads, many young people use spray hoses, brasses, and buckets to splash water on passersby.
Locals and tourists in Thailand and Myanmar came out Monday to celebrate the beginning of the massive multi-day water festival that marks the new year. Called Thingyan in Myanmar and Songkran in ...
People in Thailand rang in the new year with a giant water fight as part of the Songkran festival on Thursday, 13 April. Thousands of locals and tourists armed with toy water guns will spray water ...
Water-Sprinkling Festival: Dais in Sipsongpanna in Yunnan ... Sprinking water onto Buddha relics during the Songkran Festival in Thailand. See also. Indian New Year's ...
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