If you want to spend the holidays in mid-April, try to look Thai. At that time, several cities in Thailand is a party to celebrate the Thai New Year festival and was greeted with a spray of water known as Songkran.Songkran Festival is a day of national celebration to welcome the Thai New Year's Day which usually took place on 13 to 15 April. For the citizens of Thailand, Songkran is sacred. For that, on that day be the most appropriate time to purify themselves from sin.
Songkran opening ceremony was also held at Phra Chetupon Wimol Manklaram or Temple of the Reclining Buddha, Bangkok on April 10, 2010. To enliven, various cultural performances including a ritual bath demonstrated a statue of Buddha, to the exhibition of traditional Thai food.
The main attraction is the sprinkling Songkran water. Every person in Thailand to be willing to get a spray of water from other people to face and whole body soaked. Starting from the family, close friends until the elder person is entitled watered and watered the full.
In addition to the water flush each other attractions, there are also some people there who go to Wat (one of Thailand's Buddhist monastery) to pray and give food to the monks.
Not infrequently tourists wishing to see Songkran festival in every city in the country of Thailand. Some of the city is celebrating Songkran with the theme of the Old City of Ayutthaya Songkran Festival, Songkran Festival with Chon Buri, Suphan Buri with amazing Songkran, with Chiang Mai Songkran Festival, Phra Samut Prakarn with Pradaeng Songkran Festival, Songkran Festival Sukhothai with theme Phuket and Phuket Bike Week 2010.
Special, the people around the Rattanakosin islands, dubbed the Old Bangkok Songkran celebrations are usually prepared starting from December 10 to 15 April 2010.
Songkran Festival was first celebrated in 1888 and is usually the celebration of Songkran falls in the late dry season in Thailand. Since the incident, each date of the celebration of the festival, made a national holiday, as for other Asian countries to celebrate Songkran Festival, such as Myanmar, Laos and China.
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