Elephants Celebrate the Songkran Festival in Ayutthaya.

A painted elephant during a preview of the Songkran Festival celebration, also known as the Water Festival, in the city of Ayutthaya, Thailand, 09 April 2024. The annual elephant Songkran event is held to promote the tourism industry prior the Songkran Festival, held to mark the Thai traditional New Year which falls annually on 13 April, and is celebrated with people splashing water and putting powder on each others faces as a symbolic sign of cleansing and washing away the sins from the old year.