Bangkok--9 Apr--FYI Bangkok
SongkranBantathai Festival
Saturday, April 12 to Wednesday, April 16, 11 am to 5pm
Families are being invited to celebrate and preserve the Songkran Festival, or Thai New Year, at TK park with a string of entertaining activities
- Learn a miscellany of tidbits about the refreshing water festival
- Attend a cooking class designed for children to make Thai sweetmeats and enjoy folk games.
- Slip into traditional Thai dresses from a bygone era like jongkraben (the old-fashioned draped, loose pantaloon-style trousers) and sabai (embroidered shoulder cloth).
- Check out a series of performances by children and others.
- Mark the Songkran Festival with a Buddhist ceremony to bathe Buddha images as a symbol of luck and pay respect to the elderly in a ritual called "rodnam dam hua", during which scented water is poured onto the hands of the elderly who then offer blessings to the younger people.
The Songkran Festival promises to be lots of fun for families. Visit TK park on the eighth floor of Central World’s Dazzle Zone. Call (02) 257 4300 or visit www.tkpark.or.th. TK park is open from 10am to 8pm, every day except Mondays.