New year revelry returns to Thai streets as tourism rebounds

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Thousands of Thais and foreign tourists armed with toy water guns spray water at each other to celebrate the traditional new year, symbolizing the washing away of misfortunes and a fresh start

Festivities for Songkran, a much-loved Thai festival sometimes described as the world's largest water fight, had been muted or barred for the past few years due mainly to COVID-19 restrictions. A

Revellers - many of them soaked to the skin - walked through a half-kilometre long stretch in Bangkok's tourist hub of Khaosan Road, indiscriminately firing water guns and dancing to music blaring from kerbside establishments.

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