My previous trips on Songkran Festival

Songkran........ The Thai New Year........

Three times in Bangkok in Songkran period but only really enjoy in the latest trip.
Why I didn't join in the fun in the previous trips?

It was because the first Songkran when I was there, it is my virgin trip to Bangkok. As I joined the tour package, before I could feel what is the Song Kran like, we were already brought out of town to Pattaya. However, before departing to Pattaya, we took a boat ride in to the 'floating market' (the one that most tourist had went). In the middle of the ride, the children staying along the river side 'attacked' us with the home-made water bomb that using the river water. By the time we arrived in Pattaya, the group of us started to fall sick one by one......... Not sure due to hot weather or the virus in the river water.

Due to the encounter during first trip, while I visited Chiang Mai in another Song Kran period, I did my best to avoid being splashed by the water while walking on the street....... I was so safe and dry for quite sometime till ............ I decided to go back to hotel and rest. I flagged a tuk-tuk (a truck like transport in Chiang Mai, unlike the one in Bangkok) to send me back to the hotel...... somehow on the way, the tuk-tuk driver stopped to pick up some more passengers. There I go, when two young girls boarded the tuk-tuk........ SPLASH...... I'm wet.......

As I had observed that some people obtained the water from the canal (or it should be river, the one that surrounded the old Chiang Mai city). Lucky, didn't fall sick when I adjourned to Bangkok.