Bangkok Day 1 x Songkran Water Festival

Sorry for the overdue blog post about my Bangkok trip that took place in April. I went with my mum, aunts and uncle from April 15th to 19th. We booked these days because of the cheap flights. But what we didn't know was that the Songkran Water Festival was still going on in Bangkok. 

Songkran, or known as Water Festival is an event where Thais commemorate the event with water. Its like a water party but at a large scale. Water splashing can be seen everywhere on the road. Even fire trucks are used to splash water everywhere. Everyone was carrying water guns, buckets and some are seen with chalks and coloured powder. This year, the festival was held from 13th to 15th April. When we arrived on the 15th, the festival was still going on and we were unarmed  O.O

Along the way to our Hotel (Ecotel Hotel), everyone was splashing and pouring buckets of water everywhere. If only we had knew it earlier, we would have wore something more appropriate and joined the fun. Since we didn't have any waterproof clothes or guns, we just had to AVOID all the splashing. But no matter how much we avoided, we would eventually get wet, lol. 

Look at me! Soaked wet

Trucks and Elephants!! (pictures from Google cause I didn't dare to take my phone out)

Didn't take many pictures because I was afraid my phone will be soaked wet. Saw many cute water guns.

Like this one! I wanted to get one but I think it would be difficult to bring it back to KL. There was also a surrounded area for the Thais to play, outside Central World. Really wished that I could join the fun.

So since we were hungry and needed shelter from all the water, we went for chicken rice. Previously I went to the Pink chicken rice but it was closed when we went this time so we tried the Green Chicken Rice.

The chicken rice was okay and quite cheap. But the place was quite... the floors were slippery, you can literally slip by accident because of the floor. 

To avoid the water, we escaped to Central World! No shooting in the mall ma. But everyone was queueing up at the toilet to refill their water guns. 

Spot the girl with the Mickey gun!

Monochrome x Random Deco

Then we were pretty exhausted from walking so we stopped at Swenson's for ice cream!

Chocolate Fondue with 4 scoops of ice cream

I'll definitely go again for the Songkran Festival with my friends, gonna be super fun with them!! Going to blog about my other days in Bangkok! Till then!

♡

Rene