Songkran is not the best time of year to be a correspondent in Pattaya. It’s not that the story you’re after – a hard-hitting piece on sex tourism, naturally – has gone anywhere. Given the Thai New Year tradition of drenching everyone and everything with bucket and super soaker and hydraulic water cannon, the prevalence of flesh in the country’s sex capital is actually more pronounced than usual: Songkran is basically a city-wide wet T-shirt competition.
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