THAILAND WATER FESTIVAL AND BURMA EXPATRIATES

 

YouTube – kawthaung thingyan yein dance in central state (15.4.2011)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGlvwJfZv5k&feature=related

 

 

 

 

YouTube – Burmese Thingyan in Chaing Mai (2011)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_qxCK6FN_I&feature=related

 

 

YouTube – Burmese Thingyan in Chaing Mai

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwSH9J5NVOs&feature=related

 

 

 

YouTube – Burmese Thingyan in Chiang Mai

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQeeE9W8EkY&feature=related

 

 

 

 

 

YouTube – Thingyan Dance (Chiang Mai)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YWPuTNcQIs&feature=related

 

 

YouTube – Chiang Mai and Rangoon Thingyans

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAeoNKjoEK4&feature=related

Mid-April is the Burmese New Year Water Festival, and the Burmese living in Chiang Mai, Thailand or Rangoon, Burma are celebrating it to the fullest.

 

 

YouTube – New Year Water Festival

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWlQ0MMp3E4&feature=relmfu

VOA Burmese Service Reporter Kyaw Kyaw Thein explains about the Burmese New Year ( Thingyan) and the Thai New Year ( Songkran) as he walks along the streets of Thailand while the water festival is taking place.

 

YouTube – พม่าเล่นสงกรานต์ จ สมุทรสาคร

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSFjMiFGUWo

 

 

 

 

The Frame: Thais splash into the New Year

http://blogs.sacbee.com/photos/2011/04/thais-splash-into-the-new-year.html

I am in Bangkok now and leaving in 2 hours tor Sacramento to get away from this terrible celebration. It’s a nationwide, no holds barred water fight with nowhere to escape. In the US it would be cause for assult and battery charges at best and murder at worst. No one would put up with this kind of behavior—but the Thai people love it. Last year I stayed in my condo for the duration as many foreigners do—-this year I’m making the great escape.

@emailskip … OMG! … cause for assult and battery charges at best and murder at worst … whoa a little over the top arnt you? You live there, yet you critisize their festivities … stay in Sacramento!!!

PHOTOS TAKEN BY AUNG IN BANGKOK

Songkran Water Festival 2011

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ak_win/sets/72157626498016968/show/

Traditional New Year for Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia

Songkran Water Festival 2011, Silom Bangkok, Thailand
Taken on April 14, 2011

 

 

2010

PHOTOS TAKEN BY AUNG IN BANGKOK

Songkran Water Festival

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ak_win/sets/72157623853732218/show/

Songkran Water Festival. Traditional New Year celebration in Myanmar (Thingyan), Thailand, Lao and Cambodia.
These photos are taken at Khao San Road, Bangkok, Thailand. April 14, 2010.