A Buddhist monk prepares during a ceremony on the Songkran holiday which marks the Thai New Year, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Bangkok, Thailand, April 13, 2022. (Photo by Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters)





Tourists and local people play with water during the Songkran holiday which marks the Thai New Year during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Bangkok, Thailand, April 13, 2022. (Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)





Newly released animals, animal feed and other assorted debris from people making merit during festivities related to the Thai New Year, locally known as Songkran, float on a river by Wat Mahabut Buddhist temple in Bangkok on April 13, 2022. (Photo by Jack Taylor/AFP Photo)





Anti government protesters splash water on each other as they celebrate the traditional Songkran new year festival during a protest in Bangkok, Thailand, 13 April 2022. Protesters held their own water splashing celebrations as the government imposed a ban on the traditional festivities of water splashing in public as a precaution against the ongoing rapid spread of the COVID-19 Omicron coronavirus variant. Songkran, Thai new year festival, also known as the water festival, falls annually on 13 April, and is traditionally celebrated with people splashing water and putting powder on each other's faces as a symbolic sign of cleansing and washing away the sins from the past year. (Photo by Diego Azubel/EPA/EFE)





Tourists and local people play with water during the Songkran holiday which marks the Thai New Year during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Bangkok, Thailand, April 13, 2022. (Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)





A woman makes merit by releasing a bird by Wat Mahabut Buddhist temple during festivities related to the Thai New Year, locally known as Songkran, in Bangkok on April 13, 2022. (Photo by Jack Taylor/AFP Photo)





This photo taken on April 16, 2022 shows a fighter warming up at an event by Fight Club Thailand, an underground organisation that hosts unsanctioned fights of various martial arts disciplines, in a parking lot in the Klong Toey district of Bangkok. Harsh spotlights and street lamps illuminate a vicious brawl between two furious shirtless men as the screams of an adrenaline-fuelled crowd echo beneath a grimy Bangkok underpass: Fight Club Thailand is on. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Photo)





This photo taken on April 16, 2022 shows a man lighting a flare on top of a shipping container at an event by Fight Club Thailand, an underground organisation that hosts unsanctioned fights of various martial arts disciplines, in a parking lot in the Klong Toey district of Bangkok. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Photo)





This photo taken on April 16, 2022 shows combatants competing in Muay Thai at an event by Fight Club Thailand, an underground organisation that hosts unsanctioned fights of various martial arts disciplines, in a parking lot in the Klong Toey district of Bangkok. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Photo)





This photo taken on April 16, 2022 shows an amateur Muay Thai fighter posing at an event by Fight Club Thailand, an underground organisation that hosts unsanctioned fights of various martial arts disciplines, in a parking lot in the Klong Toey district of Bangkok. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Photo)





Anti government protesters splash water on each other as they celebrate the traditional Songkran new year festival during a protest in Bangkok, Thailand, 13 April 2022. (Photo by Diego Azubel/EPA/EFE)





Diners look at carp swimming in a fish-themed restaurant in Chiang Mai on April 12, 2022. (Photo by Jack Taylor/AFP Photo)





This picture taken on April 17, 2022 shows Muslim women praying during the holy month of Ramadan outside the Krue Se Mosque in Pattani, Thailand. (Photo by Tuwaedaniya Meringing/AFP Photo)





People participate in a 4/20 cannabis celebration march in the capital Bangkok, Thailand on April 20, 2022. (Photo by Andre Malerba/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Activists hold signs during a climate change strike in Bangkok, Thailand, 22 April 2022. People are protesting to mark Earth Day and to demand that the Ministry of Natural Resources changes the way the climate crisis is handled in Thailand to safeguard the planet and the earth's environment. (Photo by Narong Sangnak/EPA/EFE)





Pathum Thani province near Thailand's capital Bangkok hosted a traditional Mon sideways rocket festival on May 1, 2022. Ethnic Mon people from Myanmar emigrated to central Thailand several centuries ago, bringing with them their unique cultural practice with them. Rockets are tethered to ropes or chains and launched sideways, traditionally at funerals or other auspicious events. The tradition is kept alive in modern times as a celebratory community event. (Photo by Adryel Talamantes/Reuters)





Girls look out from a window during a visit to Wadi Hussein Mosque, also known as the Talo Mano Mosque – one of the oldest mosques in Thailand – on a public holiday following Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in the southern Thai province of Narathiwat on May 4, 2022. (Photo by Tuwaedaniya Meringing/AFP Photo)





Young women take pictures following morning prayers at The Foundation of the Islamic Centre of Thailand mosque during Eid al-Fitr celebrations, marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in Bangkok on May 2, 2022. (Photo by Jack Taylor/AFP Photo)





A tourist visits Wat Arun, the Temple of Dawn, in Bangkok, Thailand, 04 May 2022. Thailand has lifted arrival restrictions for fully vaccinated travelers arriving by air starting 01 May 2022. The move to ease up on travel restrictions is expected to give a much needed boost to the tourism sector. (Photo by Diego Azubel/EPA/EFE)