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Marking the end of dry season, Songkran celebrates the beginning of a
new flourishing rainy season that will bring harvest and lower heat.
Thai people prepare for the festival with seriousness and start to
clean their homes and shrines, pray and decorate the surroundings.
Madeleine Deaton However, the highlight of the festival is not a
family-like feast for welcoming the new season. It is so much more
than that! New Year for Thai means splashing great amounts of water at
each other to perform the cleansing ritual aimed to bring luck in the
following year. People gather for what may be the biggest water battle
in the world, and splash, splash, splash! Water is
everywhere—baskets, water guns, plastic bags! Travelers say it
resembles Eastern European traditions like Húsvéti Locsolkodás or
Wet Monday in Hungary and Wet Monday in Lviv, Ukraine. Songkran
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accomodations nearby The actual Thai New Year's Day is April 13, but
the holiday period extends to April 14–15 as well. On that day,
people visit their families, go to local temples and offer food to the
Buddhist monks. Water-fight in Chiang Mai during Songkran John
Shedrick Show accomodations nearby There is also a tradition to
sprinkle each other with white talc powder, which symbolizes the
security from evil spirits and guards from all the bad things that
might happen. Each region has unique Songkran traditions. In
Central Thailand, one of the most vivid celebrations takes place in
Phra Pradaeng. Here one can witness Mon ceremonies in a traditional
way, a parade of the Mon people in the colourful traditional outfits,
a spectacular floral procession, Mister and Miss Songkran Beauty
Contest, and Miss Songkran parade. The city also runs merit-making
activities in the temples and folk plays and cultural performances in
other venues. In Northern Thailand, one of the most peculiar
ceremonies is held at Ban Hat Siao in Si Satchanalai district—it's a
so-called 'Elephant Procession Ordination' when on April 7 men dressed
in the traditional clothes are taken to the temples on elephants. Find
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