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Now, it’s an all-out water war. People take to the streets with hoses, buckets, and water guns as they try to get everyone around them as sopping wet as possible. Though Thailand is not the only country to hold the nation-wide water fight, it is the most famous. Thailand’s Songkran Water Festival [Photos]

Hi psyheads, I would like to celebrate the Songkran in Koh tao/ kosumai or kopanhagn islands. Is there any outdoor tarnce party happening on April 13th or 14th there or anywhere else?

Hi everyone! The reason why I posted this topic is to ask you guys' help to look for this one person whom I met at the Songkran festival in Bangkok. He is a Thai guy, skinny, about 21-26 yrs old. I traveled to Thailand during the Songkran festival 2011. My Thai friends and I were at the RCA Slim songkran 2011 party on April 15 2011... We got a table far from the stage and closer to the entrance. Then I saw this Thai guy at the table behind ours. THat night he wore a dark brown or dark color top. We kept splashing water at each other and for us it was something like crush at first sight. I left early that night and before I left, he and 1 of his friends (who wore a blue top) followed me to the entrance and asked me something in Thai, which I did not understand. I guessed he asked me for contacts or why I left so early. After that I just walked away cause my girlfriend rushed me to. Now I feel so stupid and I can't help thinking about what happened. I don't know how to find contact with the guy i am trying to look for. Just think it would be so fun and amazing if I could find him! Could you please help post this story in Thai on some popular Thai forums please? or please pass the story around to people whom you know were at the party? The only hope for me was to ask for help from the young Thai locals... Please help me with what you can! Either pass the story around or post it in Thai on some popular Thai forums for me please! =) I know somebody did this before and he found her by making his own website nygirlofmydreams dot com Cheers to everyone who reads this!

Songkran festival is coming wish you all are safe trip and have fun naka

I've noticed more and more discussion on the site about Phuket, and with active TFers now living here (or very soon) like Macca_tirana and I_love_som_tam, perhaps Songkran can be a springboard to getting more of a TF scene going on down here. So, following the positive response to Macca's recent journal about Songkran, in Phuket I've posted a couple of events. The water fighting normally starts in Soi Bangla on 11th April (also my birthday, beer donations gladly accepted), at least in the lower half. That's the first night that it's allowed, and the bars are well prepared with their TVs wrapped in plastic etc.. This is really a bit early for the water but that can make for lots of entertainment as poor innocent bypassers get their first soaking of the holiday season. Very immature I know, but good fun. The odd scuffle is not uncommon too, but normally started by someone with no sense of humour and the perpetrator duly gets completely soaked by everyone else. We normally base ourselves outside one of the bars near Kangaroo Bar in the beach end of Soi Bangla. There are a lot of people selling water on the street but normally a couple of bars have a hosepipe in a big garbage bin and you can re-stock your ammo there. You can buy a gun in the street but you probably pay double (a few hundred baht) what you would if you bought it somewhere in advance. I'll take a trip down there and try to remember which bar was the best base last year and post it up on the event. Will be there from around 9pm until at least midnight. :!: VERY IMPORTANT: :!: If you've never done Songkran before in a place like Patong then you should know that everything that you wear and carry will become totally soaked. So don't wear much :wink: and if you have to take a phone then double plastic bags are recommended. Of course the water fight continues through 12th and normally comes to a peak in Soi Bangla in the afternoon/evening. Then on 13th, the official Songkran day, for the last 2 years the best place to be in Patong has been outside the Banana Club on the beach road. The first year they did it was just 3 and half months after the tsunami and it was like a real show of defiance. Legendary party! The DJs sit way up high on the balcony and play pumping tunes through the afternoon. So let's hope the boys in brown don't put a stop to it this year. I've a suspicion that Jungceylon, with all those fountains and mini-lakes, might take some of the Songkran attention this year, although they may well ban water fighting there. At Banana I'm not sure what time the music starts but from memory it runs from around midday until 5pm or so. So I've put midday as the time for a meet-up near where the DJs are. See you there!

What happens in Thailand during this time? What is this holiday about and what should I go to see? Is it basically impossible to travel during this period? Are all the stores and services closed.