(Photo courtesy Joe Sarrubbo) Saturday’s “Fun in the Sun” ($10 admission, 9 a.m.-9 p.m.) and Sunday’s Songkran Water Festival ($10 admission, 9 a.m.-7 p.m.) are all-day affairs, with ...

Despite a robust performance during the Songkran holiday, hotels in Chiang Mai offered lower room rates than last year in a bid to draw last-minute domestic travellers, whose confidence was still ...

Siam Songkran Music Festival 2025 will return bigger ... the event emphasises the Kingdom's soft power by integrating elements of fashion, art and sustainability into the festival.

Songkran is a festival celebrated in April and symbolizes the Thai New Year, with the celebrations of the day also being ...

Activities during the Songkran also include processions, releasing of birds and fish into the river and listening to sermons. The very first day of the festival is known as Songkran Day and ...

Getty Images Songkran is a time of renewal and honouring ones elders for Thai people (Credit: Getty Images) During the three-day festival, scented water is often poured atop images of the Buddha ...

Though Songkran traditions vary all over the country, Thammasat University’s Pipad says two main rituals are still widely carried out today. On the first day of the new year, on April 13 ...

The cabinet has approved July 27 as a substitute holiday for Songkran it postponed earlier, creating another four-day holiday next month. Since July 28, which falls on Tuesday, is already a ...

Thais are celebrating this year's Songkran festival ... Reuters On 15 April, the first day of Thai New Year, people gather at temples to offer food and new robes to the temple monks.

The more we grow older, the more we understand acceptance,” she said. Central to Songkran Day is the sharing of wisdom and kind blessings between young and old. Monk Phramaha Weraphong, ...

The Songkran festival returned to Hong Kong’s Kowloon City district with a splash on Sunday after the pandemic put celebrations on hold for the past three years, as the city’s redevelopment ...