songkran is the thai new year celebration it runs from april the 13th to the 15th
and is traditionally celebrated with water fights all through the streets
for three days straight unfortunately because of
covert it hasn't been allowed to have water this year this is songkran 2022
okay so we are starting our walk to the songkhan festival from
this temple and we're heading down to tepai gate which is apparently where all of the
songkran sort of festivities are happening right now if there's any we're going to find
out when we get there we've had it tough this year with not being able to do any sort of like
water we'll see what's there and we'll see what's happening and we'll go from there but beautiful
scenery on the way as usual with some beautiful temples to see wherever you are in thailand
do you miss me at all do you think about the things we used to
oh i miss talking oh they're going papua thank you so they were either the owners all those puppies
just got abducted i'm not sure so first step was a coffee and we're gonna head like i said just keep
walking down here i think we're about 500 600 meters away so close to now oh close up perfect
so we're almost there but that was the best thing ever i'm gonna show you what this uh over the road
that's meant to spit water and everyone is doing which is nothing because it's not on
but i just wanted to say that i think that they stopped it because
there was water fighting without masks on and things like that and it's not allowed to shoot
water this year anyway so this is the thing above the um road no water's being spurred out it's
been turned off it did say on the sign michael went to look that it was open from ten to five
um but it's not on right now so got it rigged to come out of the moat and then over the cars here
and things but it's not on right now so let's go see what other i think it's not no it's done
it's done it's the last day today so let's go see what's inside and if anything go from there
so we're at tapai gate right now and we're just seeing what's over here and what they
have on but it honestly doesn't really look that busy right now unfortunately so i'm not
sure if there's going to be much to show you it's really sad that they couldn't fully celebrate but
they're i'm giving people the things to people who are driving fast in their car
so i've never honestly heard of songkran before i came to thailand but since i've been here i've
seen how much of a special tradition it is to them and you know how much it means to everyone
here and i just feel so bad that you know you can't celebrate the way that you have been before
hopefully this is the end of the pandemic and the start of you being able to celebrate again
just feel so bad for everyone it's a bit yeah i haven't been here and i didn't know
how much water fighting went on and now there's no one like michael was telling me that people you'd
walk out your front date basically and you'd get drenched if you didn't want to get wet you just
stay inside for three days but now everywhere in the city there's nothing happening anywhere but
this is all it is at the moment there's markets on the side yeah there's not a whole lot going
on but i don't i haven't been here before during the festival so i'm not sure what i'm comparing
this to but you get a good idea and you can see if you've been here before if it's it seems a lot
quieter to me than it should be but so you can see that these are like the events that are like meant
to have been happening today but none of them are on so again it's just really sad that you have to
wait another year to celebrate you know the the vendors in there that have obviously set up yeah
they look so sad like they're all packing up now and it's super early on the last day we're gonna
go for a walk now down to lloyd pro road which if you know chiang mai is kind of like the nightlife
street i've heard there's some activity happening around there but again who knows we'll go and see
what's happening i'm just going a little red here while we're walking but i just feel like you know
so many of you are so excited for me to see songkran as well like you're all telling me
in my comments can't wait for you to see songkran coming if you see sunken it's just so sad for you
guys that you know it's not what it is but that is the way they went this year and everything but
i don't know all of these song towers just love us today i think i'm definitely gonna have to come
back to thailand to do songkran again whether it's next year or something i think we should
fingers crossed are all good for next year so you can celebrate it fully but
we're gonna have to come back i think it'll be an amazing experience
i'm so glad we brought the gopro today that was the best so i'm happy with that that's cool
so on where are we now low crown road if uh if you don't know about this place but your partner does
have a question i don't know what that means hey you know about it i don't it's just so i imagine
that's what it normally is like everywhere which would be so fun now that it's happened
to me oh that would have been so much fun but that's all right they were loving that
so i can see that there are a few things down the side street and stuff that are
playing songs and everything like that down there so they sound like they're having a
good time oh there's someone else who the host hopefully hopefully we get really wet here yes
okay now i'm drenched that was fun okay so we're just trying to find some food now
it's a bit early it's a bit early for the street food unfortunately
so i'm not sure where we're gonna go yet but i'm so glad that happened to us yeah i'm so glad that
we got at least one or two like bits of water there i'm i'm drenched show them my back
you see yeah that was really fun i'm so glad that we got something um and that some people are
having fun that just makes me happy the kids both yeah those kids were so happy both both of them
were kids and their parents like letting the kids do it kids do it yeah and they were so happy to be
doing it honestly if they want to dump a bucket of water on my head to be happy today i'm i'm happy
for them so we're just walking to find some food and we came across this really cute little road
it just looks so nice i haven't been down here much at all so
i haven't seen the street art like this in this part of chiang mai because we haven't really come
here much yet i want to change that i want to come down to this part a little bit more often
so we are still looking for some food still getting splashed which is really fun i mean
everything's close everything's closed there's obviously this is their holiday right so just
like in australia we would take from like new year's to christmas basically off uh wait no
christmas new year's basically off this is their holiday so most people have gone to see their
families or things like that so most things are closed hardly anything's open good on them take a
break that's what i say but we're gonna find some lunch hopefully we've been walking for 40 minutes
now so let's try and find something soon so we just got dumped with water by someone oh that's a
mess of water we just got dumped i missed i didn't have my camera on but she full on dumped oh yeah
she was like waiting for us and then i didn't realize
she was laying in here she was laying in weight and then popped a bottle of
a bucket of water over us that was fun we're not really having much luck finding any food so
we might head back to nimon and find something there hello so we walked around for about an
hour or more and we couldn't find anywhere to have some food so we got a grab back to sort of niman
because we knew this place would be open and we really like it okay so we have here some pineapple
fried rice and it looks to have come with some chinese sausage or some kind of sausage as well
smells like sausage smells really really good it has little like raisins or
little sultana things in there as well and you know what some of you were like
uh i find it weird that i eat the part with the fork in my i can eat with my fork because
normally i think you meant to eat with your spoon like rice with your spoon
but i ate it with a fork because in australia we we eat rice with fork so and we don't eat
and we don't eat with spoons so it's a little bit um i'm still getting used to this green
part but i'll do it for you are you ready get some sausage oh i just spilt it everywhere
so that tastes a lot different to any kind of pineapple fried rice i've had before
i think the mix of these little raisins and the sausage and the cashews are different and
really nice okay so we just finished and paid for that it was 98 baht for anyone who was wondering
we had a coke zero as well now we're here at this smoothie place and we're gonna grab a smoothie
yeah what would we get apple and kiwi uh fruit juice i'm not a juice person i'm a coffee person
but michael likes juice so we're going to try this one and i don't know if i've ever had like apple
kiwi well before you get me you never eaten a kiwi fruit before yeah sure i've never had a
kiwi fruit i'm just branching out this year okay so while we're waiting for the smoothie there's
actually this big hot pot place just across the road and last time we lived here we were like
oh we should go and get hot pot but have we gone and got hotpot here in thailand yet no
i don't know why leave me a comment or like this video if you want me to try some hot pot
um i've never had it before in like my whole life let alone here so that would not be fun
all right well it looks pretty good kiwi and apple up the top as well
and then it's obviously just branded it's really string healthy let's try it refreshing yeah it
tastes a lot like kiwi funny because it's in there but that's more kiwi oh no i've got apple too it's
it's been such a hot day today as well 70 degrees 37 degrees so and i'm like red and flustered
but it's really nice having something cold okay well that's it for songkran 2022 today
was the last day so now it's completely over uh look i think it would have been obviously more
exciting have we been able to do all of the water fights and everything but at the end of the day
you know that's the way the world works sometimes and i still hope that
everyone in thailand had a really amazing songkran anyway but that's it and maybe just maybe
we might have to come back next year but like and subscribe and i'll see you in the next one bye