Now come on, this is what you've been waiting for - again credit for many photos goes to the inestimable Greg, but really, this is what you wanna see, me, looking all like an idiot in various degrees

But first a little history/culture, namely a statue celebrating a famous rebellion thing when some famouas Thai folk heroes did something grand and glorious and.. well, it's pretty obvious I just wasn't paying any attention. Obviously.
Nonetheless:

And here is the very start of the madness - a quiet scene in a downtown water feature in a civic area, in the middle of a big boulevard.
Nothing could happen here, right?

Aha, but if you look closely...

This is me in my least abused state of the day:

A simple street scene - notice the people covered in talcum powder, the pickup trucks full of water-firing youngsters:

That public city waterway, complete with impromptu divers:

Greg being blessed (read: mobbed) by the millionth tribal youth gang of the day - these guys were just sweethearts, every one:

Heh heh, heh heh, yeah the whole James Bond thing isn't so far fetched now, is it, huh? huh??

Yeah I look a fool. But it was great!!!! :

Another street scene - pickups, roaing gangs, everyone armed with waterguns and every car and truck carrying a salvo of a couple hndred gallons of fresh, ice-cold water in the back.
Some of those blessings really hit home:

Just me again - may have been the same as before...

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The night before the carnage, a lovely river view (same civic waterway) and a couple of brewskis to ease things along :

A bit of a blurred river shot:

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Just incidentally, one of the wonderfully colourful buses in Thailand - all buses are a bit like this: how cool is that?? :

Mad people jumping into that public canal:

Mad crowds in general:

Public bathers:

Public blessings/talc abuse:

Some cute little kid who gave us our share of sacred talcum powder:

A typical, very typical truck or car; loaded with armed civilians, all watering the world with gleeful abandon Note the BIG drum full of water in the back; they all had one! :

Me in talc-soaked profile:

Me and good ol' buddy Greg - this is how we roll, yo' (lol!) :

This is how I looked pretty much all day until I got a full-on blessing from someone with a whole bucket - then I was clean again and the madness started once more, millions and millions of Thais smearing our cheeks and foreheads and ladling us with flowers and good wishes.
What a beautiful goddamn country :

This is how HE looked all day:

More roadway madness:

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Ah yes, we tried to get some sensible arty photos as well the night before:

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And then, all of a sudden we are in Siem Reap, in Cambodia.
So it goes