On 13-15 april of every year in Thailand is a festival filled with culture and funny. This is Songkaran Festival.
Songkarn festival or water throwing festival is the long holiday for thailand and it is the one of the most important festival. This festival isn't only the funny celebrating but also the ceremony by buddhism religion too. Family will seem to be appreciated in this period, especially the old people because their children wii going back to their hometown and do greeting with their older relatives.
For the activities,there are many kind of playing. The one that is well-known in worldwide is water throwing activity, this is the funniest activity. people will go to the downtown of their own city for playing throwing water and painting face by powder or the thai people called is "din sor pong" (Marl or marlstone) to the others even they are stranger. This activity will make people knows each other, we played with a smile and funny.
Another traditional activity is thai people will do by basically day, is doing the good thing or getting merit by offering food to the monk but is is different from the ordinary day, because they will go to the temple and it will have many activities over there such as pouring scented water over buddha image, building the sand pagodas and playing some thai traditional plalys that won't be seen in ordinary day.
This is just part of Songkarn festival activity. there will have more over that you couldn't imagine.
Songkarn festival or water throwing festival is the long holiday for thailand and it is the one of the most important festival. This festival isn't only the funny celebrating but also the ceremony by buddhism religion too. Family will seem to be appreciated in this period, especially the old people because their children wii going back to their hometown and do greeting with their older relatives.
For the activities,there are many kind of playing. The one that is well-known in worldwide is water throwing activity, this is the funniest activity. people will go to the downtown of their own city for playing throwing water and painting face by powder or the thai people called is "din sor pong" (Marl or marlstone) to the others even they are stranger. This activity will make people knows each other, we played with a smile and funny.
Another traditional activity is thai people will do by basically day, is doing the good thing or getting merit by offering food to the monk but is is different from the ordinary day, because they will go to the temple and it will have many activities over there such as pouring scented water over buddha image, building the sand pagodas and playing some thai traditional plalys that won't be seen in ordinary day.
This is just part of Songkarn festival activity. there will have more over that you couldn't imagine.
