Thai New Year Southeast Asia

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Thai new year southeast asia. View All Result. Although its not even officially a full moon on 31st December Haad Rin Beach home to the famous monthly Full Moon Parties will still be one of the biggest New Year celebrations in Asia with thousands of people decked out in neon glow paint slurping cocktails out of buckets and dancing on the beach at the Koh Phangan Countdown Party. Stilt houses can be found all over Southeast Asia from Thailand and Vietnam to Borneo to Luzon in the Philippines to Papua New Guinea.

Whether its Songkran in Thailand see Page 48 Thingyan in Myanmar Boun Pimai in Laos or Choul Chnam Thmey in Cambodia people celebrate with water battles. Most Thais spend these days with their families rushing home to the provinces from which they came. People in Buddhist countries all around Southeast Asia mark the traditional New Year more or less the same way splashing each other with water.

8 Epic destinations in Southeast Asia for an unforgettable New Years Eve. As most countries and cultures of South and Southeast Asia lie within the Indian cultural sphere the development of their traditional calendars have been strongly influenced by some form of the Hindu calendarAs in many other calendars the New Year was based on the northern hemisphere vernal equinox the beginning of spring. Why is Thai New Year in April.

The traditional Thai New Year Songkran was transformed into a. During this period New Year celebrations are held in Thailand Laos Cambodia Myanmar Sri Lanka parts of India Nepal Bangladesh and Pakistan and the Maldives. However the Hindu calendar year was.