Water Festival Thailand New Year

Songkran is the largest celebration in thailand and is notorious as the wildest water fight in the world.

Water festival thailand new year. Some people add herbs to the ritual water as well. It is a giant festival in thailand. Water festival is often a confusing term for foreigners in cambodia because the khmer new year in april is not normally referred to as the water festival unlike equivalent new year celebrations in neighboring countries.

Songkran 2021 will be celebrated april 13 through april 15 tuesday through thursday. Photography commissioner 21 may 2018. Thai people prepare for the festival with seriousness and start to clean their homes and shrines pray and decorate the surroundings.

The water festival thailand 2021 will be taken place between tuesday april 13 and thursday april 15 2021. These days the dates for the annual songkran new year water festival in thailand are fixed for april 13 15. Some areas such as pattaya and chonburi have extended celebrations to include the wan lai festival but the official songkran holiday dates throughout thailand are april 13 15.

Songkran festival nicknamed water festival or water splashing festival is the most famous festival in thailand. Songkran came from sanskrit which means approaching or passing. People celebrating songkran take part in a traditional pouring of water that symbolises washing away back luck and sins from a person s life.

Build the most beautiful sand pagodas. It celebrates water as a ritual of washing away negativity from the year before. The thai new year สงกรานต songkran in thai language is fixed every year from 13 to 15 april.

These dates are also a public holiday in thailand. Emily eastman talks about her experiences of the thai water festival and the traditional festivities of songkran which is celebrated every year from the 13th to the 15th of april. Since april 13 is also thailand s family day and april 14 the elderly day the younger traditionally sprinkle water onto their parents and grandparents hands.