A reporter reacts while reporting as people and elephants play with water in the background as part of celebrations for Songkran in Ayutthaya, Thailand on April 11, 2019. The annual elephant Songkran event is held to promote the tourism industry. Songkran Festival is held also to mark the Thai traditional New Year falling annually on 13 April, and it is celebrated with people splashing water and putting powder on each other faces as a symbolic sign of cleansing and washing away the sins from the past year. (Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)





An elephant calf yawns as mahouts paint elephants ahead of celebrations for the water festival of Songkran in Ayutthaya, Thailand on April 11, 2019. (Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)





Elephants and people play with water as part of celebrations for the water festival of Songkran in Ayutthaya, Thailand on April 11, 2019. (Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)





Mahouts paint an elephant ahead of celebrations for the water festival of Songkran in Ayutthaya, Thailand on April 11, 2019. (Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)





Elephants and people play with water as part of celebrations for the water festival of Songkran in Ayutthaya, Thailand on April 11, 2019. (Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)





Mahouts paint an elephant ahead of celebrations for the water festival of Songkran in Ayutthaya, Thailand on April 11, 2019. (Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)





An elephant calf dances with people as part of celebrations for the water festival of Songkran in Ayutthaya, Thailand on April 11, 2019. (Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)





Elephants and people play with water as part of celebrations for the water festival of Songkran in Ayutthaya, Thailand on April 11, 2019. (Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)





Elephants and people play with water as part of celebrations for the water festival of Songkran, which marks the start of the Thai New Year in Ayutthaya, Thailand on April 11, 2019. (Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)





Mahouts paint elephants ahead of the celebration of the Songkran water festival in Ayutthaya, Thailand on April 11, 2019. (Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)