A ceremony to pour water over sacred Buddha relics and Navagraha figures will be among the highlights of Songkran festivities at the Bangkok National Museum in Phra Nakhon district.

It is time for a countdown to the Spring Festival. Starting Friday, most Chinese families will kick off a series of rituals to welcome the Lunar New Year. The traditions that have been inherited and maintained for thousands of years, bear in them the culture of the nation.