Hear the Mekong: Water-Splashing Festival 2025 in Xishuangbanna
By Gateway | 2025-04-15 10:54:59
The 2025 Water-Splashing Festival is being celebrated from April 12 to 16 in south Yunnan’s Xishuangbanna, a Dai autonomous prefecture that lies on the banks of the mighty Mekong River. The event is also an annual gathering for young people from China and the five Mekong countries.
The water festival has different names in the Mekong countries. It’s Songkran Festival in Thailand, but in Laos, Myanmar and Cambodia, the water festival is called Pi Mai Lao, Thingyan Festival and Chaul Chnam Thmey respectively, and the duration may vary slightly.
Video producing by Li Wenjun (YICC)