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Happy New Year!
Posted on April 13th, 2010 at 09:38 3 commentsToday is Songkran, the Thai New Year’s day. I’ve lived in Patong for almost ten years now, and I’m always thrilled when Songkran rolls around, not just for the sanuk that goes with the holidays, but also for the water fights.
Songkran in Patong
Yes, the water fights.
It’s fashionable for long-term expats like me to be a bit blase about the massive partying going on in Patong, but I’ll readily admit that I love it. Thousands of people dousing each other with water. It’s crazy, it’s wild, and it’s one whole heckuvalot of fun.
The water fights have just started, and they’ll continue for the next three days. In a few hours, there will be rivers of water rolling through the streets of Patong, with traffic snaking and snarled all through our little town. I’ll hop in a truck with my Dad, stick our friends in the back, set ‘em up with barrels and barrels of water, roll out the squirt guns, and go have a blast.
For those of you who have written, concerned about the political problems in Bangkok, not to worry – Bangkok is a thousand miles away, both geographically and politically. In Phuket, everything’s normal, always has been normal, and it’s time to have fun.
Wish you were here!
3 responses to “Happy New Year!”
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Happy New Year to you. I am happy to have another New Year to celebrate. I like all of them. A water one sounds great (Pisces birthday).
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We get three full-out new years. January 1, of course. But we also celebrate Chinese New Year, typically in late February. Lots and lots of people from China (and overseas Chinese) come to Phuket to party. Songkran is my favorite of the three…
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Songkran is not just water sloshed on drivers, these days. Increasingly, there’s occasional ice (Brrrrr!) in there, and a great deal of what looks like powdered colorful paint, possibly flour, mixed in with the water.
My white-haired friends who have braved the streets on motorbikes invariably come home looking like they’ve been fingerpaint-decorated by an American Indian war party.
It’s all good-natured fun, though, and washes off easily. Any Songkran-related traffic injuries are insignificant compared to the Christmas-to-New-Years Thai “seven days of danger”, which typically have dozens of alcohol-related deaths.
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