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Thais make a merit by offering food to a Buddhist monk during the morning alms as a religious merit making rite to mark the Thai traditional New Year known as “Songkran”, at Sanam Luang Royal Ground in Bangkok, Thailand, 13 April 2024. Thailand celebrates the Thai traditional New Year 'Songkran' festival, also known as the water festival, which annually falls on 13 April, and is celebrated with splashing water as a symbolic sign of cleansing and washing away the sins and bad luck from the old year. The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) inscribed Thailand's Songkran Festival in the list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. (Photo by Narong Sangnak/EPA)
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