Get Wet During Thailand's New Year's Celebration

Travelers looking for the next bucket list event to attend should be booking travel to the 2020 New Year's celebration in Thailand.

According to The New York Post, the Thai New Year is known as Songkran and is celebrated in Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar, as well as Thailand. The festivities kicked off Saturday and ran through Monday.

Social media users took to Twitter to showcase what makes the Songkran celebration so much fun:

Locals and tourists celebrate the traditional Thai New Year 'Songkran' by splashing water on elephants and each other pic.twitter.com/2LSV7v3cG0

- Reuters Top News (@Reuters) April 12, 2019

Thailand has one of the best things ever: a water festival where everyone gets out their water guns and splashes each other for 3 days. Incredible.

Happy Thai New Year! #Songkranpic.twitter.com/jui66eI6jF

- Pearly (@Pearly_____) April 13, 2019

Yes!! Today the last day.
Songkarn festival is Thai Traditional New year's Day.
Custom for Thai family, community and religion.
We express our respect to our elders by pouring scented water our parents and grandparents hand.
We join splash water on each other. pic.twitter.com/xLAlxdnC8L

- Supanee08 (@supanee08) April 15, 2019

SAWATDEE BEE MAI means happy new year in Thai!!!! What an incredible day pic.twitter.com/4VavuwgTxl

- young dumb & brooke (@bmayze) April 13, 2019

Massive crowds of people flood the streets in bright floral clothes and begin to throw water at each other using buckets, super soakers and even elephants. The tradition spawned from the tradition of pouring water over statues of Buddha to wash away bad luck from the previous year.

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