These days, Thai people are celebrating the new year according to the Buddhist calendar with fun water splashing.
Jump into water tanks to shoot each other
The Songkran festival atmosphere begins to bustle from April 12. On this occasion, people temporarily forget their daily worries and take to the streets to celebrate the new year.
In Bangkok, the Khaosan area (Western Street) is the most bustling when tens of thousands of people flock here. Here, people use water guns, ladles and even hoses to spray each other, with the meaning of washing away the bad luck of the old year and welcoming the new year with full happiness.
On many streets in Bangkok and Pattaya, many young people and foreign tourists prepare large buckets of water and guns, and water hoses ready to spray at passersby with the hope of wishing them good luck.
The festival officially started on the afternoon of April 13 and lasted until April 16. Tens of thousands of people flocked to Khaosan Road to welcome the new year and splash water for good luck.
A foreign tourist is using a water gun to spray at passersby.
Everyone is soaked when going out these days.
Water was thrown from the car during the opening parade of the festival.
The hot weather of 34 degrees Celsius is also a favorable condition for playing with water.
A water play between foreigners and locals
Thai boys and girls have the opportunity to play freely
In Pattaya city, Chon Buri province, a motorcyclist was "dunked" with a basin of water from head to toe.
Passengers sitting on tuk tuks passing by could not escape either.
Spraying soap foam increases the attractiveness of the festival
Dress up to splash water
Not only water, girls also have powder smeared on their faces, this is also a custom to pray for good luck at the beginning of the year during the Songkran water festival.
