Songkran Festival (Thai New Year 2017)

13 & 28 April 2017

Every April in Thailand (and some countries in Southeast Asia) is celebrated a festival called “Songkran” as it is marked in the lunar calendar the New Year. Besides going back home and visiting family, Thais always take this time of the year to make merit with whole family at the temple to begin the year with goodness and joyful. In this special occasion, Songkran also is known as the water festival. Young people celebrate the festival by splashing water on each other on the major streets and areas to keep us cool down in the scorching hot weather in April.

On the 13th April 2017, the MVPH 7th batch students joined the Songkran Parade with Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Chiang Mai University accompanied with the town's people, numbers of organizations paraded through Chiangmai comprised of Buddha images from Nawarat Bridge on the Mae Ping River and moved to the Thapae Gate before approaching its final destination of Wat Prasingh.

In the Songkran occasion, it isn't only officially celebrate time of New Year but it's also the time to homage the ancestors, elders and other persons deserving respect with the blessed water. The MVPH students had opportunity to join such ceremony at Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Chiang Mai University on 28th April 2017 and it is taken place annually.