Experience the Songkran festival in the Thai countryside. The small village called Ban Sablangka is placed in the Nakhonratschsima Province somewhere between Bangkok and Chiang Mai. Few foreign people have ever been to this place so don’t miss the opportunity and take a look Enjoy the music background from thai country music superstar Karabao.

Video we took while meeting kids all around the world for our non for profit initiative, “My Petit Mundo”, meant to enable kids to open up to other kids living at the other end of the world cultural universe. To see all the videos: blogs.tv5.org For more details, see our blog on our media partner Website TV5 Monde (in French): blogs.tv5.org Or take a look at all the pictures we took from our encounters with the kids: blogs.tv5.org

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The Songkran parade in Chiang Mai Thailand was wonderful. Every time I was getting dry and hot someone would pour water down the back of my neck and back wishing me happy new year. The parade of Buddha statues with everyone throwing water on them, beautiful girls in traditional dress parading and dancing to local northern Thai music.