Culture: Sawasdee Pee Mai Phuket!

These days, Songkran – the Thai New Year – is popularly associated as the grand “water festival”, but there is so much more to the holiday. Not only popular in Thailand, the tradition is also observed in Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, and even parts of India and Vietnam. Here we’ll look at the ways and whys it’s celebrated – at present and in the past.