Tourist Tips for Songkran Festival 2016

How to keep yourself safe, dry, and fun during Songkran festival 2016

Thailand celebrates the biggest event in April for their Thai new year, known as Songkran festival. The celebration mostly seen to be involved with water playing, splashing, or even ceremony. 100% of Thai people is wet from water splashing. Yes, it’s great and fun for Thai people but I’m sure it’s probably not for foreign visitors or tourists like you. What do you need to do if you are one who don’t want to get wait from this celebration. The following is How to keep yourself safe, dry, and fun during Songkran Festival in Thailand 2016.

Songkran or Thai new year celebration started already this week through and around the country of Thailand, April 13-15. But wait, it not happens yet in Pattaya until April 19. The celebration in Pattaya is surely not what you have seen or watched in television seeing Thai people dress and pouring on each other softly and beautifully, but it’s celebrated like water war in battle field when everything usually goes crazy with no sign of an end, starts early morning till the very late at night. Every single corner and street turns into a river, ten thousand of buses with hundreds thousand of crowds pack up, traffic can hardly move, people keep playing, drinking, singling, splashing water all the time.





Since the celebration involves water playing activity, the most important suggestion I would strictly ask you to keep in mind is about your electronic devices and official paper, do keep them in water resistant container such as plastic, metal, or whatever you can find that is able to completely block the mass of water.

Regarding How to keep yourself safe, dry, and fun during Songkran festival in Thailand that my title says on the far most top of this page. My best suggestion for you is ‘keep yourself locked in the hotel room’. This is because there is no way I can figure out that you would be safe from being soaked walking down the street packed with water celebration like this.

The choice is yours, you rather keep yourself locked in the hotel getting bored like the world is so cruel or better grasp your colourful easy-to-dry outfits, keep electronic devices in the hotel room or finding a good plastic bag to keep them safe if you prefer to take them with you, walk down to street and be part of the celebration. Join it or leave it, the choice is truly yours.

Happy Thai New Year
April 14, 2015