epa04701560 Tourists have fun spraying water from giant water pistols at the popular tourist strip Khao San road on the first day of the water festival Songkran celebrations, the Thai traditional New Year, in Bangkok, Thailand, 12 April 2015. Songkran Festival 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 old year. EPA/FAZRY ISMAIL
