http://www.thai-eyes.com Thailand Lifestyle Blog Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:10:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.thai-eyes.com/songkran/happy-songkran-thailand-2010/ http://www.thai-eyes.com/songkran/happy-songkran-thailand-2010/#comments Sat, 17 Apr 2010 05:43:53 +0000 Thai-Eyes http://www.thai-eyes.com/?p=1100 Happy Songkran Thailand 2010 ? In our eyes, there was nothing happy about the biggest water battle on earth. The start of the Songkran Festival 2010 was ill-starred, because of the clashes between the red shirt protesters and security forces at Saturday 10.04.2010, with 21 dead and over 850 injured people. We´ve been bewildered, as [more...]]]> http://www.thai-eyes.com/songkran/happy-songkran-thailand-2010/feed/ 0 http://www.thai-eyes.com/thailand/sawasdee-pee-mai-happy-new-year-thailand-2009/ http://www.thai-eyes.com/thailand/sawasdee-pee-mai-happy-new-year-thailand-2009/#comments Sat, 11 Apr 2009 12:47:34 +0000 Thai-Eyes http://www.thai-eyes.com/thailand/sawasdee-pee-mai-happy-new-year-thailand-2009/ While the Songkran festival 2009 is overshadowed by the redshirt protests against the current government, bookings for hotels dropped by 50 %. Restaurants, bars and other entertainment places are empty and have to sack parts of their staff, but there is no solution for the political trouble in Thailand in sight. Picture: Young buddhist monk [more...]]]> http://www.thai-eyes.com/thailand/sawasdee-pee-mai-happy-new-year-thailand-2009/feed/ 1 http://www.thai-eyes.com/thailand/songkran-2009-chiang-mai-festival-knocking-on-the-door/ http://www.thai-eyes.com/thailand/songkran-2009-chiang-mai-festival-knocking-on-the-door/#comments Sun, 05 Apr 2009 09:33:21 +0000 Thai-Eyes http://www.thai-eyes.com/thailand/songkran-2009-chiang-mai-festival-knocking-on-the-door/ From 10.04.2009 – 14.04.2009 the Songkran festival 2009 will be held in Chiang Mai, North Thailand. Chiang Mai is well known for Thai new year festival Songkran with the biggest waterbattle on earth. At the moment people in Chiang Mai are busy to clean up and decorate the city. People, which want to take part [more...]]]> http://www.thai-eyes.com/thailand/songkran-2009-chiang-mai-festival-knocking-on-the-door/feed/ 1 http://www.thai-eyes.com/thailand/da-endorphine-concert-chiang-mai-songkran-2008/ http://www.thai-eyes.com/thailand/da-endorphine-concert-chiang-mai-songkran-2008/#comments Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:43:55 +0000 Thai-Eyes http://www.thai-eyes.com/thailand/da-endorphine-concert-chiang-mai-songkran-2008/ Songkran, the Thai New Year, is celebrated in Chiang Mai/North Thailand, not just with the biggest waterbattle on earth, there are also lots of other events. At 15.04.2008, the last day of Songkran 2008 festival, Da Endorphine came to Chiang Mai to give a free concert. Da Endorphine is the most famous and successful female [more...]]]> http://www.thai-eyes.com/thailand/da-endorphine-concert-chiang-mai-songkran-2008/feed/ 0 http://www.thai-eyes.com/thailand/building-phrasai-sand-chedis-on-songkran/ http://www.thai-eyes.com/thailand/building-phrasai-sand-chedis-on-songkran/#comments Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:47:04 +0000 Thai-Eyes http://www.thai-eyes.com/thailand/building-phrasai-sand-chedis-on-songkran/ At the second day of the Songkran Festival, called "Wan Nao", many Thai Buddhists are going to the tempel and are building sand chedis.]]> http://www.thai-eyes.com/thailand/building-phrasai-sand-chedis-on-songkran/feed/ 0 http://www.thai-eyes.com/thailand/songkran-festival-2008-in-thailand/ http://www.thai-eyes.com/thailand/songkran-festival-2008-in-thailand/#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:21:55 +0000 Thai-Eyes http://www.thai-eyes.com/thailand/songkran-festival-2008-in-thailand/ During 13.04.2008 - 15.04.2008 the Songkran Festival 2008 (Thai new year) took place all over Thailand. Since many years Chiang Mai in Norththailand is the center of the Songkran activities and the Thai new year is been celebrated there with the "world??s biggest waterbattle".]]> http://www.thai-eyes.com/thailand/songkran-festival-2008-in-thailand/feed/ 0 http://www.thai-eyes.com/thailand/songkran-thai-girls/ http://www.thai-eyes.com/thailand/songkran-thai-girls/#comments Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:34:35 +0000 Thai-Eyes http://www.thai-eyes.com/thailand/songkran-thai-girls/ Foto:Two young Thai girls are posing for our Thai photographer.]]> http://www.thai-eyes.com/thailand/songkran-thai-girls/feed/ 3 http://www.thai-eyes.com/thailand/chiang-mai-get-armed-for-the-big-water-battle-on-songkran-festival-2008/ http://www.thai-eyes.com/thailand/chiang-mai-get-armed-for-the-big-water-battle-on-songkran-festival-2008/#comments Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:11:08 +0000 Thai-Eyes http://www.thai-eyes.com/thailand/chiang-mai-get-armed-for-the-big-water-battle-on-songkran-festival-2008/ Every Year from 13.04. - 15.04 the Thai New Year Songkran Festival takes place all over Thailand. The Thaipeople go to the temples and washing the Buddha statues with jasmin water. They sprinkling water to each others head, followed by wishes for a good new year (Sawasdee pee mai).]]> http://www.thai-eyes.com/thailand/chiang-mai-get-armed-for-the-big-water-battle-on-songkran-festival-2008/feed/ 0