Buddhist New Year Celebrations Across Southeast Asia
A Splashing Good Time in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar
Songkran
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Experience Songkran: Thailand’s Epic Water Festival
. We were lucky enough to find ourselves in Chang Mai during the Thai New Year celebrations where we took part in the world’s largest water fight!
Also celebrated in Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam, Songkran is a water festival that rings in the traditional Thai New Year, which just happens to be the hottest time of the year. Meaning “stepping into and passing” when combining the Sanskrit words Song and Krant, the word Songkran represents the sun moving from one sign of the zodiac to another.