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Amazing Songkran Joyful Procession 2017

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) organised an Amazing Songkran Joyful Procession on 8 April, 2017, to officially get the Thai New Year celebrations off to a colourful start. The event marked the opening of the Amazing Songkran Experience Festival 2017, which is taking place in Bangkok’s Benjasiri Park from 8-13 April, and will give everyone a taste of the Thai New Year in the different regions of Thailand.

Gallery 1: Opening Ceremony
H.E. General Tanasak Patimapragorn, Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand helped to get the Amazing Songkran Joyful Procession off to a great start and welcomed people from around the world to enjoy a traditional Thai New Year, wherever they celebrated in Thailand.

Gallery 2: The Amazing Songkran Joyful Procession
The procession brought colour and Thainess to Sukhumvit Road and started with a show called Amazing Blossom of Siam followed by the entrance of the Songkran Goddess for 2017, Krini Devi, who rode atop a majestic elephant.

Gallery 3: A celebration of Songkran
All five regions of Thailand with their myths, flowers and traditional dances were celebrated with floats in the procession. There was also a Green Songkran parade and a colourful look at how Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar celebrate their own New Year.

Gallery 4: The Amazing Songkran Experience Festival
The Amazing Songkran Experience Festival 2017, to be held until 13 April, sees a part of Benjasiri Park divided into Four Zones. The arts, crafts, shows and displays will give everyone a taste of the Thai New Year in the different regions of Thailand.

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