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Songkran Festival Chiang Mai

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Songkran Festival Chiang Mai
Songkran Festival Chiang Mai
Songkran Festival Chiang Mai
Songkran Festival Chiang Mai
Songkran Festival Chiang Mai
Songkran Festival Chiang Mai
Songkran Festival Chiang Mai
Songkran Festival Chiang Mai
Songkran Festival Chiang Mai
Songkran Festival Chiang Mai
Songkran Festival Chiang Mai
Songkran Festival Chiang Mai
Songkran Festival Chiang Mai
Songkran Festival Chiang Mai
Songkran Festival Chiang Mai
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Huay Kaew Road, Su Thep, Chiang Mai 50000, Thailand

Songkran is the Thai New Year's national holiday. Songkran is 13 April every year, but the holiday period extends from 14–15 April. In 2018 the Thai cabinet extended the festival nationwide to five days, 12–16 April, to enable citizens to travel home for the holiday. The word Songkran comes from the Sanskrit word saṃkrānti , literally astrological passage, meaning transformation or change. The term was borrowed from Makar Sankranti, the name of a Hindu harvest festival celebrated in India in January to mark the arrival of spring. It coincides with the rising of Aries on the astrological chart and with the New Year of many calendars of South and Southeast Asia, in keeping with the Buddhist/Hindu solar calendar. In Thailand, New Year is now officially celebrated on January 1, Songkran was the official New Year until 1888, when it was switched to a fixed date of April 1. Then in 1940, this date was shifted to 1 January. The traditional Thai New Year Songkran was transformed into a national holiday.
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