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April, and everything gets wet
- What the water is actually forWater poured over Buddha images and over the hands of elders is the observance; the street soaking is what grew around it.
- The bowl, and the order it goes inThere is a sequence — images first, then elders, then everyone — and getting it wrong is the commonest visitor mistake.
- How to turn up without getting it wrongWhat is expected of a guest at a temple observance, described rather than prescribed.
- The August festival, and why it is not the new yearA second water festival is often mistaken for Songkran; it is a different observance with a different origin.
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