BANGKOK - Tens of thousands of revellers, including hordes of foreign tourists sporting floral shirts and plastic water guns, descended on the streets of Bangkok on Thursday (April 13) for the biggest traditional new year gathering since the pandemic. Festivities for Songkran, a much-loved Thai festival sometimes described as the world's largest water fight, had been muted or barred for...
People play with water as they celebrate during the Songkran holiday which marks the Thai New Year in Bangkok, Thailand on April 13.BANGKOK - Tens of thousands of revellers, including hordes of foreign tourists sporting floral shirts and plastic water guns, descended on the streets of Bangkok on Thursday for the biggest traditional new year gathering since the pandemic.
But as travellers now return to Thailand, the key tourism sector is helping revive Southeast Asia's second-largest economy. "It's a multiple-day, city-wide water fight," said Jared Baumeister, a lawyer from New York, who flew into Bangkok this week to join the festivities.
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