First of all a happy, lovely & totally wicked Sawadee Pee Mai to all Koh Phangan lovers out there.
April 13.th 2007 is indeed an extraordinary special day on
Koh Pha-Ngan Island, the hidden jewel, in the Gulf of Thailand. So … it was time again for another celebration of the world famous
Songkran Festival here on
Koh Phangan Paradise Island. And also in the year 2007 lots and lots of people from all over the world finally found their way to
Koh Pha-Ngan, the island of madness, to participate in a day filled with fun, smiles, tons of liquid and some usual surprises.
Though it was raining a lot that day the streets in downtown
Thongsala were packed again with hundreds of bizarre life forms to celebrate the beginning of a
New Year in the Thai culture. The
Songkran Festival Party normally starts nice & smoothly late morning and reaches its peak around noon and then tends to create its own
insanity, which perfectly fits in with the demented surroundings the island of madness, called
Koh Phangan, has to offer.
Once the
Songkran Festival reaches its state of
insanity and
disaster you can expect to discover flying Singha beer bottles or occasionally some knifes, which, by the way, seems to be quite
popular on Koh Phangan Island at the moment.
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| Koh Phangan Songkran Festival 2007 |
Koh Phangan Songkran Festival 2007 |
Koh Phangan Songkran Festival 2007 |
Then take a couple of young local Thai teenagers and provide them with constant and easy access to those marvelous liquids, the native Indians used to call
fire water, and within a couple of hours you can expect to see some real street fights with at least a few drops of blood … I guarantee!
Then finally the
local police cops will introduce themselves and do whatever they have to do. In the past this normally happened late afternoon around 4-6 p.m. but this year we got lucky and could enjoy the show around 3 p.m. already.
Isn’t that awesome?
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Koh Pha-Ngan Songkran Festival 2007 |
Koh Pha-Ngan Songkran Festival 2007 |
Conclusion: What first started as a tiny, nice & lovely
Songkran Festival here on
Koh Phangan, has, over the last couple of years, developed into a mass gathering of bizarre life forms who desperately need to celebrate the let’s get fucking wasted mentality.
So … Happy Songkran Festival :-)
