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Well what can i say, been in chaing mai for a week now and its been mad! Over here its thai new year, and boy can they celebrate!
Here new years is celebrated with a water festival called 'songkran'. Oh my god for 1 week i have been soaked through everyday! The streets are lined with people, some are swimming in the moat but all have water guns and buckets and go around wetting anyone and everyone!
Theres a real party atmosphere with bars blasting their music out in to the streets! Its defo the biggest water fight your'll ever witness and its brilliant.
The roads in chaing mai are jammed all day with cars, motorbikes and trucks full of thais dancing, singing, drinking. Its impossible to do anything else but to get involved. Its one hell of a new years celebration/party. You cant even go out and get lunch without having a bucket of ice water tipped over you within 10 feet of leaving your hostel, it really is crazy!
Today woodsy and i and a kiwi we have met called cameron, hired a tuk tuk and went and bought ourselves a ton of ice, a big bucket of water and some water guns. The aim was to cause as much havoc as possible. Was such good fun but we kinda got overwhelmed as our tuk tuk would get surrounded by thais who saw us as a prime target for the ice water treatment.
After three days of it though im happy that tommorow we leave for laos and a slow boat ride down the massive mekong river! Should take us three days to get to where we want in laos but hopefully it will be fun and the boat will have a bar!
Promise to put photos up asap, but having difficulties getting them to upload at the mo! will try again soon!
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