After three years of Covid restrictions, Songkran celebrations marking the Thai new year have returned in full swing, with water fights across the country.
At Bangkok’s Si Lom Road, street sellers with stocks of colourful water pistols and floral shirts lined the streets, while shops put out tubs of icy water as refills for crowds of tourists and locals. Almost 200 official locations across the capital are holding celebrations for Songkran, and in the Gulf of Thailand, island-wide water fights were under way.
