Seeing the other side of the coin

Water splashes and flows. The adults are laughing and smiling, while the children scream and shriek with excitement.

Everybody was soaked. Locals, tourists and visitors from neighboring Myanmar and Thailand, it didn't matter, as strangers sprayed or sprinkled water on each other unexpectedly.

The streets and squares in Mangshi, capital city of Dehong prefecture, Yunnan province, were full of such carnival scenes last week during the Dehong International Water-Splashing Festival.