Colorful Religious Festivals
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Songkran, Thailand
Songkran is the April celebration of the traditional start of Thai new year. It used to be closely tied to Buddhist prayer, but now its largely secularized in the form of a giant country-wide water and chalk fight, designed to represent spiritual cleansing.
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