Songkran

Say hello to cultural experiences. If you're looking to spend any amount of time in Thailand, just...don't do it in April. It happens to be one of the hottest months of the year, and I doubt you'll want to get in on all the Songkran Festival festivities (say that ten times fast). What is Songkran you ask? Let me explain.

Songkran is a nationwide festival that started out as a Buddhist holiday, where people would sprinkle a little bit of water on another person in order to bless them, as well as possibly mark them with chalk for blessing. Well, fast-forward a hundred years or so and it has turned into one huge water fight.

And this is where this blog finds me, squeezed in the back of a pick up truck next to a huge water tub and multiple people. This truck traverses the main streets of Chiang Mai, where drunks vomit and urinate in the same moat water that is being thrown at you from every possible angle. Sounds fun, doesn't it? Only to add that, blocks of ice are also being sold and submersed in various containers, so you get a nice icy blast to the face.

I've started to not care for Songkran so much.

But it was worth it. All because someone's mom decided that we all needed showers and hot spaghetti. Mmm.

And, shame on me because this blog is fairly outdated now. Songkran was about a month ago, and I forgot to finish this before I got too busy.