Thailand’s New Year is celebrated from 13th to 15th April. The date of the festival was originally set by astrological calculation (moon calendar) but it is fixed now. We joined the biggest water fight of the world in the South of Thailand. Only 5 minutes after our arrival in Ao Nang our clothes were completely soaked with water and our faces were covered with a white paste (a mixture of baby powder and tiger balsam – yes, it burns in your eyes…). To keep it short, it was the best New Year’s celebration we ever experienced.
Watch the video and decide for yourself:
There got a newspaper article published about our Songkran Visit.
2012-04-21 Oberösterreichische Nachrichten
“Klitschnass ins neue Jahr”
page 27 ‘Reise’, full page article
www.nachrichten.at/ratgeber/reisen/art119,868372
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Nasse Lederhosen, wet-T-shirt-contest und Wasserspritzpistolen. Das sieht ganz nach einem ueberdimensionierten Sspielplatz fuer euch aus. Ihr hattet sicher extrem viel Spass. Was war denn dieses weisse Zeug? Liebe Gruesse nach Australien.
Ja, in der Tat war es sehr lustig. Das weiße Zeug war eine Mischung aus Babypuder/Talgpaste, Wasser und ab und zu auch Tigerbalsam. Der Tigerbalsam brennt übrigens sehr gut in den Augen… 😉