Thai New Year (Songkran)

Photo: myasianplanet.com The Songkran festival is celebrated in Thailand as the traditional New Year’s Day from 13 to 15 April. The word “Songkran” comes from the Sanskrit word saṃkrānti, or literally “astrological passage”) meaning transformation or change. It coincides with the rising of Aries on the astrological chart, the New Year of many calendars of…