So Songkran is once again looming upon us here in Thailand, with the fanfare that surrounds this great festival “The Thai New Year” and yes folks will be hiding behind their closed doors during this time of the year. Why, you may well ask?

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“Songkran Festival, April 12-15, is the traditional Thai New Year. This is the time for Thais to pay homage to Buddha images, clean their houses, and sprinkle water on their elders in a show of respect. Anyone who ventures out on the streets is likely to get a thorough dousing of water, all in good fun, but also quite welcome at the peak of the hot season.” Sriwittayapaknam School

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Thanks to Viktor for the “AquaPac” which protected the camera from the water and the rain, and to Simon who took most of the shots out of the car (I had to drive ). Without both them these photos could not have been taken. Thank you both of you for helping me.

Now back to the topic at hand "Songkran Photos":-

Double Trouble

Hello

Thank you, I needed that

And these two lovely's???

That one was easy

The Kids are ours

Whee, so you are not taking a shot at us with water then

Missed me

Got you

Well what Kan one say

And fun had by all

and this one is still my Fav one of all times:-

Opps

So please post your photos here.

Yours truly,

Kan Win

P.S. Thank you Viktor and Simon

Some taken on Saturday in Pattaya. More here:

http://www.pbase.com/hughden/song2008

Some from Phuket:

Edited by Kan Win due to 1 double posted photo and 2 un-seen ones.

Kan Win

A couple from Surin:

More here:

Songkhran Images

Here are two of mine. Taken in Pattaya with Rebel XT 70-200 2.8L lens

Shoot from the hip - direct hit!

Shields up captain!

Rest of the pictures here - http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/36934/113/

Also on my flickr page - http://flickr.com/photos/not5150/

hehe..nice pics..thanks ...

Good business for the camera repair shops........

drying out all those wet cameras.

Excellent shots from everybody.

Good business for the camera repair shops........

drying out all those wet cameras.

Excellent shots from everybody.

used my dive camera this year in its housing after my mate did 35,000baht of damage to his nikon d2h last year..