Top important festival in Myanmar

While traveling Myanmar, visitors can notice that almost of their festivals relate to Buddhism or have Buddhism meaning. Booking a tour to Myanmar during the time of the following festival will make your luxury holiday become more and more memorable.

New Year Festival – Thingyan

Thingyan or Water Festival is one unique customs of Myanmar people. The country with more than 90% of population are Buddhists still keep their traditional customs for thousands years. The New Year Festival or Water Festival takes place in the second week of April and it lasts for three or four days. The festival is celebrated over the country, and Myanmar people congrats each other by split water over their clothes. The meaning of the action is, water will clean all of the bad lucks in the old year and people welcome the New Year with a clean soul.

Myanmar people celebrate Water Festival on the street

Long time ago, in the night before New Year, Myanmar people cooked flowers and leaves to make fragrant water. They poured the water into bowls and bottles and then put the bottles in front of their houses during the festival. Each day, they used different leaves or flowers to make the water. Until now, although they are no longer using fragrant water, the festival still keep the sacred meaning in pagodas. And on the streets, people spray water to each other and make the festival a relax time. The more wet you are, the more happiness you will get in the next year.

Pagoda Festival

Shwedagon – one of the biggest and more sacred pagodas in Myanmar organizes Shwedagon Festival every year. It is a meaningful tradition to every people because the rituals affect spiritual life of Myanmar people. The Festival takes place in fifteen days with many Buddhism rituals and worships. It is a perfect combination of Buddhism worship with Myanmar traditional culture.

The Festival starts with a parade of thousands people. The people wear traditional clothes going barefoot around the temples and towels in the complex pagodas of Shwedagon. The sound of gongs in every corners combines with the praying of hundreds monks. It makes the spiritual space become sacred and mysterious.

People light up the candles to celebrate Shwedagon Festival at midnight

Outside the pagodas, there is place for entertainment and outdoor activities. Myanmar people prepare many days for the singing, dancing and puppet shows. Besides the performance locate places for presenting and selling food and handmade ornaments.

Myanmar Traditional Music Festival

In Myanmar luxury holiday, visitors will have chance to enjoy Myanmar traditional music with the performance of dumps, gongs, bells and a series of wind instruments including flutes and cymbals. Visiting the Buddhism land Myanmar, people attract to not only the traditional music but also the dance. The art of dancing has invented for a long time and during the worship of gods, dancing is an indispensable ritual. Myanmar dance is enthusiastic and sometimes, it requires the dancers to practice difficult positions. And the women and men in Myanmar never touch each other while they are dancing.

Top important festival in Myanmar 2015-12-14T00:38:00-08:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Sophia Maria