2023 Songkran Carnival

สวัสดีค่ะ Sawasdee ka！Welcome to Thailand! On arrival in Bangkok, your professional private guide will be ready to welcome you at the arrival hall with our warm welcome kits. You will be transferred to your hotel with a private car and driver. Your guide will help you with luggage and hotel check-in and ensure your arrival is worry-free.

The Songkran Festival in Thailand is not all about water splashing and having fun. To celebrate the Songkran Festival in local ways, we will take you to visit local temples to make merit and form sand pagodas just as what Thai people always did every year. They do this in order to receive a blessing and good luck for the new year. 

Your first stop will be Wat Arun, also called "The Dawn Temple", which belongs to an immense stupa. Your guide will escort you to join a series of activities here. You will carry sand to the temple and form sand pagodas in any design and with any decorations you like. Continue you will watch the bathing rites of Buddha images and join the merit-making activities.

After taking the ferry for lunch at the Pier，you will visit the spectacular Grand Palace. It's undoubtedly the city's most famous landmark, where you will find Wat Phra Kaew there (the temple of the Emerald Buddha). Continue to Wat Pho, one of the oldest, most extensive and famous temples in Bangkok, home to an immense reclining Buddha statue.

The most exciting water battle time will start after your temples visit, you will take a local Tuk Tuk and enjoy your water fight along the road with locals and other new friends. To continue your of a water fight, your last stop will be Silom Road. This 5 km length street is packed on two levels with thousands of young Thais and tourists carrying anything that can spray water. The highlight is to spot the firetrucks ambushed at each intersection with their incredibly powerful water hoses. If you don't want to get wet anymore, you can stay on the BTS skywalk that runs above the streets to enjoy the party where it is relatively dry surroundings. From up there you can witness the full extent of the game.

Songkran in Pattaya is unlike anywhere else in Thailand. The famous water festival is taken to extremes and the whole city becomes not so much one giant water fight as a week-long pitched battle! Today you will set off to Pattaya and see how the water battle will be like here. 

Upon arrival in Pattaya, you will check in to your hotel. After the refreshment, you will go to the beach road for your big water party! You will find the gentle origins of this traditional celebration are mostly lost amongst the buckets of ice water, high-pressure soakers and foam parties on Beach Road.

When the nightfall, the highlight of today is about to begin. You will visit one of the best night bars in Pattaya. Unlike the many beer bars and go-go you will find along Walking Street, our best-selected nightclubs with quality of drinks, ambiance, location, and unique-selling-point will definitely be what you are looking for. During Songkran Festival, some special themed nights will be dotted in the calendar in most of the nightclubs which are always fun and lively. You will enjoy the music and dance in the middle of the night with your newest friends.

After breakfast, you will explore the Elephant Jungle Sanctuary, which will offer you an enjoyable opportunity to spend quality time with elephants in their natural home, as well as gain an insight into their history and behavior, and create cherished lifelong memories of their time spent with these amazing animals.

You will first meet your English-speaking guide and learn a little about the elephants, before changing into traditional Karen clothing.

After being allocated bananas and sugar cane to feed to the elephants, you will walk with your guide through the Sanctuary, where you will find free-roaming elephants and hear their individual stories. You can touch, feed, photograph, and interact with the elephants at your leisure while you learn about their lifestyle and behaviors. After you have met all the elephants, you will accompany them to a nearby mud spa. Get muddy with the elephants as you apply a healthy cosmetic mud treatment to their skin. Next, you will walk with the elephants shower them and join them in the water for a refreshing. Take a swim and help bathe and brush the elephants while they wade through and play in the water.

Once the elephants are clean, you can take some final photos with them, and then it will be time to part ways with your new friend and change into some dry clothes. 

After breakfast and check out from the hotel, you will back to Bangkok. You can choose to stay in Bangkok for one more night or connect your onward flight.