How to tell the time in Thailand

Telling the time in Thailand, or to be more precise, understanding the intricacies of the Thai 6 hour clock is probably one of the hardest Thai lessons to grasp. The Thai time system has without doubt been the source of…

The Songkran Festival

The Thai New Year, ‘Songkran’ originally derived from Sanskrit, “astrological passage”, “move” or “change place”. It is the day the sun changes its position to Aries in the zodiac. The date of the Songkran festival also known as the ‘water…