anyone know when does it start in pai and chiangmai? im in pai right now, coming back on 12th april. any possible way to avoid getting wet?

Take a taxi.

anyone know when does it start in pai and chiangmai? im in pai right now, coming back on 12th april. any possible way to avoid getting wet?

Take a taxi.

when does it start throwing? i believe the festival is on 13th, hopefully the water throwing activities itself. taking the cab is definitely what i will do, but i guess i might still be alittle wet, would probably assume some light throwing at the arcade station, but maybe not. hmm

anyone know when does it start in pai and chiangmai? im in pai right now, coming back on 12th april. any possible way to avoid getting wet?

Take a taxi.

when does it start throwing? i believe the festival is on 13th, hopefully the water throwing activities itself. taking the cab is definitely what i will do, but i guess i might still be alittle wet, would probably assume some light throwing at the arcade station, but maybe not. hmm

No, 12 is a big day, probably in the Pai area too, and in between. Also for safety and traffic jam reasons I strongly suggest you get back on the 11th.

anyone know when does it start in pai and chiangmai? im in pai right now, coming back on 12th april. any possible way to avoid getting wet?

Take a taxi.

when does it start throwing? i believe the festival is on 13th, hopefully the water throwing activities itself. taking the cab is definitely what i will do, but i guess i might still be alittle wet, would probably assume some light throwing at the arcade station, but maybe not. hmm

No, 12 is a big day, probably in the Pai area too, and in between. Also for safety and traffic jam reasons I strongly suggest you get back on the 11th.

thanks for the info. i guess i shall just come back on 11th noon =)

And even on the 11th, be a little careful with kids playing water in the villages. (Esp. when riding a motorbike, sudden wet patches, sudden buckets, etc. )(

when does it start throwing?

Every year that I can remember, it started in earnest in the afternoon of the 11th, so that is when I get into Songran gear and leave the wallet and such at home. .

Edited April 9, 201214 yr by Ulysses G.

I'm leaving my wallet at home already. And stopped wearing proper shoes and socks. Not out of concern getting them wet, but to get in the mood early.

And even on the 11th, be a little careful with kids playing water in the villages. (Esp. when riding a motorbike, sudden wet patches, sudden buckets, etc. )(

I start work out in Hang Dong and have to bring a laptop with me daily, hoping that for the next few days I stay dry, I think I will wrap it in plastic and my rain jacket as a precaution.

And stopped wearing proper shoes and socks.

Eh, I stopped that about 5 years ago

-Mestizo

Caught a small bucketful on the leg driving down the superhighway near Chang Puack yesterday. My hostess screamed "oi," but managed to maintain a straight line with the motosai.

returning from Pai yesterday there were dozens of places that were set up to get us as we passed

I certainly hope not, but two small Thai children have been running around in my building dry-firing for days.

Maybe you could introduce them to the farang's with small kid brains and they can squirt water at each other for the next week or so.

Good idea!!

Well; I've just returned from my daily Bike ride through numerous Villages and a fairly long stretch of Canal Road and not a single drip to be seen anywhere. Not expecting the same tomorrow but all very quiet at the moment.

anyone know when does it start in pai and chiangmai? im in pai right now, coming back on 12th april. any possible way to avoid getting wet?

Body condom?

Driving past Thaphae Gate at about 10pm last night and there was no shortage of obnoxious pissed looking farangs squirting everything in sight. One can only hope someone took offence...

Went through wing 41 a hour ago, a group of unfortunate attractive young ladies Seemed to be ablaze. Poor girls, very skimpily dressed, Tee shirts and short shorts !

At least two small water hoses being applied on them and numerous young males throwing water to help dampen the flames.

I saluted as I passed and two guys washed me down.

john

Last night around 12.30 there was a gang of farang soaking everything that went past. One approached a car and started squirting his super soaker 9000 through a small gap the window been down.

This really annoyed me, to the piont where if one got me, I was going to stop and engage in fisty cuffs. Thank fully it didn't come to that.

This is my 8th songkran and I've not seen this level of stupidly before.

That group at Tha Pae gate was an ugly bunch, they started early, soaking every rider that passed, night-time not yet Songkran. should not be tolerated.

And even on the 11th, be a little careful with kids playing water in the villages. (Esp. when riding a motorbike, sudden wet patches, sudden buckets, etc. )(

I start work out in Hang Dong and have to bring a laptop with me daily, hoping that for the next few days I stay dry, I think I will wrap it in plastic and my rain jacket as a precaution.

Definitely wrap it. My mate had his soaked a few days before official songkran last year and it was done.

A mate got soaked last night around Tapae. Farangs with buckets and guns. His phone still has issues apparently, hopefully will be fine when fully dried out. Songkran can be fun (although one day of it and im done) but hate the idiocy that goes with it. Granted it might be that tourists are truly ignorant about the cut off point for soakings. Really think TAT should consider distributing leaflets about songkran to hotels and flights etc at this time about SOngkran etiquette.

Songkran days when I was younger, normally guys will only throw water at girls and vise versa (except children they can play with anyone). All water activities in CM stop after dark. Now I don't know what happen.

Songkran ettiquitte would be a logical (?) use for the T.P. volunteers, (do they still exist?)

That group at Tha Pae gate was an ugly bunch, they started early, soaking every rider that passed, night-time not yet Songkran. should not be tolerated.

I think the UK throws the prison gates open at this time of year and gives everyone a two week holiday in Chiang Mai, to help rehabilitate them and improve their social skills. Stranger things have been heard of in the UK (where I'm from), where some of the policies are completely off the rails.

Edited April 12, 201214 yr by uptheos

where some of the policies are completely off the rails.

You mean the tax rise on warmed Cornish pasty?

where some of the policies are completely off the rails.

You mean the tax rise on warmed Cornish pasty?

Yeah....how warm does that Cornish pasty have to be in order to qualify for VAT?

where some of the policies are completely off the rails.

You mean the tax rise on warmed Cornish pasty?

Yeah....how warm does that Cornish pasty have to be in order to qualify for VAT?

Just another way to collect pennies, the current Government is desperate to find any dosh to plug the huge deficit left to them by the last lot.

Anyway; back on thread, been out on the usual Bike ride this morning and it's very sleepy everywhere with no sign of water activity at all. Seems to me all the action must be in town during the day and all the bad behaviour follows at night. I'll stay in my sleepy corner !

A mate got soaked last night around Tapae. Farangs with buckets and guns. His phone still has issues apparently, hopefully will be fine when fully dried out. Songkran can be fun (although one day of it and im done) but hate the idiocy that goes with it. Granted it might be that tourists are truly ignorant about the cut off point for soakings. Really think TAT should consider distributing leaflets about songkran to hotels and flights etc at this time about SOngkran etiquette.

They shouldn't have let them in the country in the first place.

Edited April 13, 201214 yr by Semper

In a Songkran waterfight I don't think there is such a thing as losing. It's an act of blessing too.

Sawasdee Bee Mai, Khun WinnieTheKhwai,

I wish I could agree with this, I really do !

But, once you have had someone (in this case a Thai) run out of a restaurant (farang owned, that shall not be named here) on Loi Kroh, a ways down from Changklan, past the entrance to the Royal Lanna, heading east towards the one-way "iron bridge" over the Ping at the Charoenbrathet intersection, and toss a full bucket of dirty water from ground-level upwards right in your face at close range, as hard as they can, to try to blind you, and knock you off your bicycle ... it is hard to keep in mind the memories of other, more gentle, lustrations.

My favorite thing is to stop where I see a very young child, with small water-gun, or bucket, who I think might be shy, and stop and bend over, and invite them to pour water on me They often hide behind mama or papa at the approach of this strange old big-ugly farang, and have to be encouraged by mom, or pop, to come out and "let me have it."

best, ~o:37;

Edited April 13, 201214 yr by orang37

In a Songkran waterfight I don't think there is such a thing as losing. It's an act of blessing too.

Sawasdee Bee Mai, Khun WinnieTheKhwai,

I wish I could agree with this, I really do !

But, once you have had someone (in this case a Thai) run out of a restaurant (farang owned, that shall not be named here) on Loi Kroh, a ways down from Changklan, past the entrance to the Royal Lanna, heading east towards the one-way "iron bridge" over the Ping at the Charoenbrathet intersection, and toss a full bucket of dirty water from ground-level upwards right in your face at close range, as hard as they can, to try to blind you, and knock you off your bicycle ... it is hard to keep in mind the memories of other, more gentle, lustrations.

My favorite thing is to stop where I see a very young child, with small water-gun, or bucket, who I think might be shy, and stop and bend over, and invite them to pour water on me They often hide behind mama or papa at the approach of this strange old big-ugly farang, and have to be encouraged by mom, or pop, to come out and "let me have it."

best, ~o:37;

Was fortunate enough this year to have my first 2012 songkran soaking come from three young Thai kids that very gently poured water on my shoulder and wished me a happy new year