Thailand: Sprinkling water on monks at Wat Paen Wen during the Thai New Year Songkran (Water) Festival, Chiang Mai, northern Thailand. Songkran is the traditional Thai New Year and is celebrated from 13th to 15th April. This annual water festival, known in Thai as 'songkran,' and in Burmese as 'thingyan' marks the beginning of the rainy season and is celebrated in Burma, Laos, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries, usually in April. Chiang Mai (meaning 'new city'), sometimes written as Chiengmai or Chiangmai, is the largest and most culturally significant city in northern Thailand.

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