Celebrate the Buddhist New Year with a water fight

Revelers use water guns to spray at one another as they celebrate the Buddhist New Year, locally known as Songkran, in Bangkok, Thailand on April 13, 2019.

Dancers perform at a street during celebrations for the Buddhist New Year, locally known as Thingyan festival, in Naypyidaw on April 13, 2019.

A girl plays with soap suds during celebrations for the Thingyan festival, also known as the Buddhist New Year, in Yangon on April 13, 2019.

A man throws water during celebrations for the Thingyan festival in Yangon on April 13, 2019.

A reveler pours water on two women during celebrations for the Thingyan festival in Yangon.

A tourist woman is soaked as she arrives on the popular tourist strip of Khao San road during the Songkran Festival, the celebrations on Thai traditional New Year, also known as the water festival in Bangkok, Thailand on April 13, 2019. Songkran Festival is held to mark the Thai traditional New Year falling annually on 13 April, and it is celebrated throughout the Kingdom with splashing water and putting powder on each others faces as a symbolic sign of cleansing and washing away the sins from the past year.

Foreign tourists join the Songkran Festival, the celebrations on Thai traditional New Year in Bangkok, Thailand on April 13, 2019.

Thais pour traditional scented water over the Buddha statue to mark the Songkran Festival in Bangkok, Thailand on April 13, 2019. Songkran Festival is held to mark the Thai traditional New Year and it is celebrated throughout the kingdom with splashing water and putting powder on each others faces as a symbolic sign of cleansing and washing away the sins from the past year.

Children play with soap foam during Thingyan Water Festival in Yangon, Myanmar on April 13, 2019. The annual water festival, known as Thingyan, features large groups of people congregating to celebrate the by splashing water and throwing powder at each other's faces as a symbol of cleansing and washing away the sins from the old year. It marks the start of the traditional New Year and is similarly celebrated in countries such as Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia.

People play with soap foam during Thingyan Water Festival in Yangon, Myanmar on April 13, 2019.

Mon ethnic women participate during the opening ceremony of the Thingyan Water Festival in Yangon, Myanmar.

A reveler is doused in a water gun battle as they join the Songkran Festival, the celebrations on Thai traditional New Year in Bangkok, Thailand on April 13, 2019.

A Thai reveler is sprayed with water thrown by an elephant during a preview of the Songkran Festival celebration, also known as the Water Festival, in the city of Ayutthaya, Thailand on April 11, 2019.