Archive for April 14th, 2006

Happy Songkran!

Happy Songkran everyone! สวัสดีปีใหม่ Songkran (สง�?รานต์) is the New Year festival celebrated in Thailand & Laos as well as, less ostentatiously, in Burma and Cambodia. In Thailand (and increasingly in Laos) the festival is marked by massive public water fights. Funnily enough, the water fights originally grew from people "sprinkling" water on each [...]