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Songkran Pictures 2008
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Tuesday 15th April, 2008 at 20:59:09| Words: 145 words | Category: Thai Festivals
A group of young Thai boys engage in a water gun fight on Rama IV Road in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, April 15, 2008, while celebrating the New Year. The three day event while religious in nature has become more secular over the past years with massive water fights being staged along with other forms of merry making.(AP Photo/David Longstreath)
Thai teenagers, their faces covered with talcum powder, gather on Rama IV Road in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, April 15, 2008, during New Year celebrations. The three day event while religious in nature has become more secular recently with massive water fights being staged along most avenues in Bangkok and around the southeast Asian nation. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)
A group of young Thai boys engage in a water gun fight on Rama IV Road in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, April 15, 2008, while celebrating the New Year.(AP Photo/David Longstreath)
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Songkran in America
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Sunday 13th April, 2008 at 23:50:43| Words: 127 words | Category: News Photos
Slkavas Nalampang pours water on one of the Buddha statues at the Homestead, Fla. Thai temple, on Sunday, April 13, 2008, during celebrations for Songkran, the Thai New Year. Songkran ('The Water Festival') holiday, goes back to pre-Buddhist rituals during spring festival where water was thrown, as a symbol of luck, as people tried to bring rain to the spring crops. Then it became a religious custom to wash the Buddha statues once a year. Many Thais see the holiday as a time to wash away their sins from the past year. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)
Ryan Sheurpukei, 8, is caught in the crossfire of water guns on Sunday, April 13, 2008, during celebrations for Songkran, the Thai New Year, at the temple in Homestead, Fla.(AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)
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Songkran on Khao San Road
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Saturday 12th April, 2008 at 21:37:04| Words: 76 words | Category: Thai Festivals
Tourists participate in a water gun fight during the Songkran Festival celebration at Khaosan road in Bangkok April 12, 2008. The Songkran festival, also known as the water festival, marks the start of Thailand's traditional New Year and is believed to wash away bad luck. REUTERS/Kerek Wongsa (THAILAND)
Western tourists and Thais spray water as the celebrate on the eve of Thailand's New Year on Khao San Road in Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, April 12, 2008.(AP Photo/David Longstreath)
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Exodus for Songkran Holiday
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Friday 11th April, 2008 at 12:02:21| Words: 39 words | Category: News Photos
Thais wait to board buses to leave the capital to celebrate Songkran, the traditional Thai New Year, at a bus terminal in Bangkok, Thailand Friday, April 11, 2008. The annual Songkran festival is held from April 13 through 15. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
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Songkran Starts Early
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Thursday 10th April, 2008 at 11:03:47| Words: 60 words | Category: Thai Festivals
Children in Chiang Mai Province, in the north of Thailand, throw a bucket of water over passing motorcyclists as part of the traditional Songkran Festival. The annual festival isn't supposed to start until Sunday 13th April, but due to the hot weather and long summer holidays, some children have started the festivities early. (Thai Rath)
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Water Fights at Songkran
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Sunday 15th April, 2007 at 21:40:08| Words: 57 words | Category: Thai Festivals
Thai youths playing waterfights during Songkran, which is the traditional Thai new year. Pickup trucks loaded with barrels of water roam the streets looking for victims. In the above picture, the occupants of the pickup truck are splashing water on pedestrians. However, one of them, in the photo below, gets his sweet revenge. (Richard Barrow/ThaiPhotoBlogs.com).
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Celebrating Songkran
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Friday 13th April, 2007 at 20:52:31| Words: 88 words | Category: Thai Festivals
Thai Buddhist gather for the traditional New Year's blessing and to make offerings Friday, April 13, 2007, in Pattani, Thailand. Violence against Buddhist in southern Thailand continues to grow as authorities battle a growing Muslim insurgency. The Muslim-dominated region that has been plagued by a violent insurgency that has lasted more than three years and claimed more than 2,000 lives. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)
Thai teenagers play with water guns in Bangkok on Friday, April 13, 2007 during Songkran festival, or water festival, to celebrate Thailand's ancient New Year. (AP Photo/Chatchawan Lekthai)
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Elephants Enjoy Songkran
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Wednesday 11th April, 2007 at 21:36:03| Words: 89 words | Category: Thai Festivals
Mahouts and their elephants spray water on locals in celebration of the Songkran water festival in Thailand's Ayutthaya province, about 80 km (50 miles) north of Bangkok April 11, 2007. Songkran, the most celebrated festival of the year, marks the start of Thailand's traditional New Year. REUTERS/Adrees Latif (THAILAND)
With an assist from its mahout, an alephant blows water at passing motorcyclists from its trunk at a Songkran or ancient Thai New Year celebration in Ayutthaya province, central Thailand Wednesday, April 11, 2007. The three-day festival will start on April 13. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
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Songkran in Phra Pradaeng
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Sunday 23rd April, 2006 at 23:24:06| Words: 50 words | Category: Thai Festivals
The people of Phra Pradaeng in Samut Prakan celebrate Songkran a week later than the rest of the country. In these pictures you can see the townspeople taking part in a parade. At their local temple they release birds and fish as a way to make merit. (ThaiPhotoBlogs/Richard Barrow)
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