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    Songkran

    Apr 01, 2022 3 minutes
    by Ruth Rodgers

    Splash! Splat! Imagine the biggest water fight ever! People all around you have buckets and big water guns. Picture huge crowds filling the streets, completely soaking one another. Even elephants are spraying water. If you were celebrating the New Year in Thailand, you would not need to be using your imagination at all. This is Songkran, Thailand’s New Year’s celebration.

    Songkran, one of Thailand’s oldest celebrations, marks the beginning of the

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