Where will the Songkran Festival be celebrated in Thailand in 2018?

? In 2018, how can we miss a quick trip? But when it comes to travel, Thailand is now a popular tourist destination, and there is good news that Thailand is about to welcome It’s the Water Splashing Festival, so friends who are planning to go to Thailand must not miss it. Let’s talk about where the Songkran Festival in Thailand in 2018 will be celebrated. Let’s take a look.

Where is the Songkran Festival celebrated in Thailand?

Thailand’s annual Water Splashing Festival will be grand in several major tourist cities, mainly in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Pattaya, Sukhothai and other places, so if you want to experience the Water Splashing Festival, go there Here are some cities!

Guide to Bangkok’s Water Splashing Festival:

Bangkok’s Water Splashing Festival has less of a traditional cultural festival. Most local Bangkok people use this New Year’s holiday to go out of town. Instead, they Most of the huge crowds of people in Bangkok are foreign tourists. Therefore, the meaning of the cultural festival has been greatly reduced. Instead, it has become the most lively "water festival" in the world! Therefore, there are many foreigners on the Songkran Festival in Bangkok. It is an international water festival and it is also very lively.

Main battle areas - Khao San Road, Silom Road, RCA, etc.

Khao San Road: Khao San Road is usually an important base for backpacking tourists. Therefore, the water splashing here every year The festival is almost crazy. Especially European and American tourists, they picked up large water guns and sprayed them mercilessly on everyone they met, regardless of whether you felt uncomfortable? Or a girl? Everyone sprays water crazily, and it is common for gunfire to occur from time to time. So if you want to come here to enjoy the Water Splashing Festival, be sure to be mentally prepared. What is held on Khao San Road is not the traditional Thai Water Festival, but a super water festival in the global village of the world!

Silom Road: The Songkran War Zone in Silom refers to the BTS Skytrain "Sala Daeng Saladang Station" to the next station "Chong Nonsi Station" The road under the overpass. During the three days of the Water Splashing Festival, they will close this section of the road and turn it into a hiking area, and there will be some controls. As long as you are carrying a water gun with too powerful a water column or improper equipment, the police in front of the fence will check it. In addition, this water-splashing battle zone has many performance stages, as well as food stalls and stalls selling water-splashing equipment. Even "water replenishing stalls" are everywhere.

However, although the Water Splashing Festival area in Silom has been lively in recent years and has attracted a large number of tourists, many European and American tourists dress too cool here; in addition, Silom District It has always been the base camp of gays in Bangkok. In the past few years, it has become a global gay water-splashing event. Occasionally, there will be some disorderly and over-enthusiastic behavior. For Thai conservatives, they think this is a significant impact on Thailand’s traditional culture. Shock, loud comments on TV news and media.

Therefore, this indirectly causes more and more locals in Bangkok to become indifferent to Bangkok's Water Splashing Festival. They would rather go to Chiang Mai to attend the Water Splashing Festival, or go directly out of the city for vacation, or even It’s fun!