I have a habit of walking out of hotel rooms straight into the middle of festivals. Today was no exception as it’s the Thai New Year – Songkran. How do they celebrate over here? Well, seeing as it’s the height of Summer you walk around the streets with huge buckets of water and throw them over complete strangers! Or you buy a super high powered water pistol and do the same. Great fun.

Traffic comes to a standstill as trucks armed with massive tanks of water roam the streets for people to shower, and even motorbikes aren’t exempt with people throwing buckets of water at them too!

In Phuket it’s only on for one day ( in other areas it can be 3 or 4 days), and was over by sun down. But lots of fun all the same.