Akin to Sankranti, celebrated on April 13-15, Songkran marks Thailand's traditional New Year, when the sun passes into the Aries constellation after the rice h ...

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Songkran is Thailand’s famous Thai New Year festival, and every April it turns streets across the country into a happy, water-soaked celebration. Many people ...

The Songkran festival, celebrated in Thailand from April 13th to 15th as the Thai New Year, involves visiting Buddhist temples, water activities, and paying respect to elders.

Discover a great Songkran celebration atmosphere in ‘Thailand’s Songkran Festival 2025’ at all Central shopping centers nationwide, which serve as festive landmarks where Thais and tourists from ...

Last year we covered the world's biggest water fight, the Songkran Festival in Thailand, and although our story was viewed 100,000 times, and everyone marveled at the delightfully eccentric contrast ...

LAYTON — The Wat Dhammagunaram Layton Temple is holding a Songkran festival on Saturday and Sunday to mark the Thai and Lao new year. Activities go from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday with Buddhist “merit ...

Singapore will hold a Songkran festival this month but it will be literally dry. This is quite strange since Songkran is Thailand’s New Year celebration which features a lot of water throwing. The ...

The Bangkok-born and Denver-based author and illustrator added that she hopes “Happy Songkran Day” does well enough that she ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Revelers take part in mass water fights on the first day of Songkran, or Thai New Year, on Silom Road in Bangkok in 2024. - ...