Songkran Festival
This amazing HD documentary shows The Songkran festival. It marks the Thai New Year and is considered to be one of the Kingdom's most fun and family oriented festivals with its traditional water splashing. Celebrated in the hottest season of the year its appropriately filled with water activities, from polite wet splashes to well aimed water canons...
The water also symbolizes purification and cleansing from all illness and evil in order to start a fresh new year. Songkran is also a time for thanksgiving for all the positive aspects of life: kindness, generosity, happiness and peace. Rituals and offerings to the Buddhist monks, floral floats, bathing of Buddha images in the streets and the Miss Songkran parade are all part of the festival activities. The celebration, which embodies Thai culture and tradition, includes another act of faith: sand is brought to the temples and castles are built as a blessing to be earned by its believers.
10:00:00 - 10:01:33 - Opening montage including dancers, fireworks, Chinese dragon, street parties, drum-beating and water fights
10:01:33 - 10:01:39 - Title Sequence
10:01:39 - 10:06:35 - Thai rural and urban GVs. Ceremonial bathing of Buddha statues and building of sand pagodas.
10:06:35 - 10:07:11 - Religion in Thailand. Buddhist monks and ceremonies.
10:07:11 - 10:07:43 - Bangkok GVs.
10:08:21 - 10:10:40 - Thai temples and monasteries including the famous shrines at Wat Arun and Wat Pho.
10:10:40 - 10:11:52 - Grand Palace and jade Buddha statue.
10:11:52 - 10:18:04 - Songkran rituals including dragon dances and drumming.
10:18:04 - 10:22:34 - Thai GVs, river-boating and river-trade.
10:22:34 - 10:30:06 - Thai food and melon carving.
10:30:06 - 10:31:21 - Songkran festival and water fights. Thai GVs.
10:31:21 - 10:35:03 - Umbrella decoration.
10:35:03 - 10:42:33 - Elephant sanctuary. Elephant activities including football and painting.
10:42:33 - 10:46:09 - Chang Mai GVs. Thai Prime Minister taking part in Songkran festival.
10:46:09 - 10:47:44 - Closing montage.
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