For three days every year, Thailand transforms into a wet and wild party. But this ancient festival is far more than just a raucous good time.

Tourists and local people celebrate the water-splashing festival at a square in Jinghong City, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan Province, April 15, 2025.

Water balloons sailed through the air, bursting against laughing crowds. Hoses and water guns launched water from sidewalks ...

The Dai people in Xishuangbanna in Southwest China's Yunnan province celebrated the traditional Water-Splashing Festival from April 14 to 16. Tourists joined locals in passing on blessings as they ...

Southwest China's Yunnan province is in celebratory mode this month with the arrival of the traditional Water-Splashing Festival, which is a new year celebration that is especially important to ...

The water festival, known as Jol Utsab ... Marma youths took part in the water-splashing event that symbolises washing away of sorrow, suffering and sins from the past year.

The weather put a dampener on a water splashing festival in Kowloon City to celebrate Songkran on Saturday afternoon, with organisers forced to suspend the event when a thunderstorm warning was ...