Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Songkran Festival,Water War Greet the New Year in Thailand

Confused looking for a holiday destination in the month of April? Take a vacation to Thailand and join the battle!

War in Thailand is not a real war, but fought each other using water pistols to spray water. This activity is also known as the Songkran Festival.

Songkran Festival is celebrated in Thailand to mark the New Year based on the calculation of the calendar used in most of South and Southeast Asia. If the initial calculations performed using the Songkran Festival schedule astrological calculations, are now always falls on 13 to 16 April each year.

Songkran is actually held by the end of the dry season. Although it has been done in other cities, the Songkran Festival celebration gala in northern Thailand, Chiang Mai precisely.

In this city, Songkran lasts for six days or more. Things even this is now not only be enjoyed as one of the cultural attractions by local people. Songkran Festival has begun to attract foreign tourists to engage in it, even though they prefer the fun. When Songkran, people are free to shoot at anyone with water, the point they should not let others wiggle in the dry state.

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