Barefoot and cloaked in swinging bamboo ropes, two masked performers dressed as Laos’ legendary “ancestors” walk the streets of Luang Prabang on an annual outing for raucous new year celebrations drawing hundreds of worshippers to the normally sleepy city. Revellers splash water on the pair and their gold-studded masked lion cub during the annual procession […]
New Year
Thai new year splashes in with water fights, raves
Water-spraying elephants, raves and boisterous, street-blocking water fights — Thailand’s Buddhist new year arrived with a splash Saturday, a once calm festival now celebrated with a more raucous edge. Paying respects to elders and sprinkling water over figures of Buddha at local temples are some of the traditions of the three-day new year celebration — […]
Water fight with elephants kick off Thai New Year
Elephants with hearts and flowers painted on their bodies sprayed water at revellers celebrating Thailand’s traditional new year Thursday, in an annual event which has animal protection groups crying foul over animal cruelty. In Thailand’s former capital Ayutthaya, a tourist hotspot famed for its ancient temple ruins, more than a dozen elephants walked along the […]
Goals for the New Year
Another chapter closes forever. What’s left behind for us is to recall the memories made whether good or bad. Above all, the most fascinating thing is to figure out what you learned, experienced, lost and achieved in the last year. The ‘New Year’ is the beginning of a special occasion where everyone will encounter countless […]
7 exciting things to do this Christmas 2017
Let’s glide around in full swing and make precious memories that will dazzle us in 2018. Indeed, winters are love, but above all, the best part is the Christmas festival which brings ahead a joyous New Year with bundles of exciting plans and spur of happy moments spreading love everywhere. The Christmas countdown is well underway so […]