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Quote from Ian Forbes:
"Go to Nan. I was there in March and the city seemed totally dead. Hotels that could hold 500 guests had no more than a dozen. There are some fabulous rides or drives in the mountains to the north east."
Actually this is very good advice. I was forgetting the first Songkran I spent in Thailand some years ago I was living in Chiang Mai and I hired a car. Drove round most of the surrounding provinces on my own. Nan, Phrae and Lampang. Songkran was good fun, mostly just the kids playing with water. The “grown ups” were at home on the booze!
And the main festivities seemed to be in the temples. Having said that I did come back to Chiang Mai for the last day and it was astonishing....total anarchy. And tremendous fun!
If you are in Chiang Mai already, then Songkran is not to be missed, but one day is probably enough.
Funny, but it seems to me that most of the madness is often in the tourist ghettos. I wonder why that is?
Driving around was no problem too. Most of the well publicised mayhem on the roads is on the main arteries up to Chiang Mai and Isaan.
#5186114 Best Place To Go In Thailand To Avoid Songkran?
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on 2012-04-02 19:59:24
#5185854 Best Place To Go In Thailand To Avoid Songkran?
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on 2012-04-02 18:10:08
Semper, on 2012-04-02 17:58:51, said:
thaibeachlovers, on 2012-04-02 16:20:15, said:
Semper, on 2012-04-02 15:44:11, said:
PattayaParent, on 2012-04-02 10:04:33, said:
Go to bed and don't get up until it's all over.
Hmm, what about bedsores?
A normal and active person should never get bedsores, as one needs to be completely motionless for 2 to 4 hours, and how many people other than the seriously ill would do that.
Yes, but the mayhem will not be over in 2-4 hours. More likely a week.
Yes, and you can't stock up on women beforehand like you can with booze and packaged food.
#4983236 Rampant Rental Car Thefts In Phuket
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on 2012-01-16 13:56:42
They can claim the cars back from pawn brokers for no payment due to accepting them without proper papers.
#3882793 Whats The Strangest Thing You'Ve Ever Seen Here?
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on 2010-09-14 17:06:33
transam, on 2010-09-14 16:51:25, said:
neverdie, on 2010-09-14 16:40:04, said:
Piengrudee, on 2010-09-14 12:27:51, said:
Whats The Strangest Thing You've Ever Seen Here? It must be the army killing Red-shirts; because it is NOT possible at all, as the army are instructed NOT to shoot using REAL bullets.
Somehow I accidently clicked on you for positive reputation for this post when I didnt mean too
......so thats left me with no other option other than to post to tell you to grow up. Mods please edit that GREENIE, at once
Just give him a red one to cancel it out.
(can't stand it when people try to turn a jovial thread into a political rave)
