Like it or not its the Thais that have turned it into a 3 day drunken water war.

No. Their traditions and culture have been long sabotaged from outside influences......like it or not.

Like it or not its the Thais that have turned it into a 3 day drunken water war.

No. Their traditions and culture have been long sabotaged from outside influences......like it or not.

This is unprecedented, zzaa... I have to agree with you. On more than one occasion when I lived in Chiangmai, I was invited to a rural village for Songkran "to see what it should really be like". Unfortunately I couldn't take advantage of those invitations, but I do remember Chiangmai 20 years ago before the farang yobbos took over. A gentle, friendly occasion... but you still got wet through!

I was in a little village outside of Phitchit a few years ago and it was traditional. Chiang Mai I was able to sneak from my apartment to the back of Central mall where the trucks unload and inside that way and watched the festivities out front. I made a mistake of trying to walk down a side street and a nice looking little girl with a big smile smeared me with powder and dumped water on me. I ran back to my apartment for the rest of the day.

I played for a couple of years till I got pink eye and that was no fun. Viral pink eye there is no cure so you have to wait for a couple of weeks for it to run its course. I think the eye doctor gave me steroids or something like that to help it along but told me it would be there for a couple of weeks regardless of what she did.