Thingyan Water Festival

Thingyan pageant is the Burmese New Year Festival or occasionally known as Water Festival due to the fact water throwing, water spraying, dousing on every different are the primary sports in the course of this pageant. It commonly falls from thirteenth to sixteenth April. This is the maximum predicted birthday party of Burmese people & is a comparable birthday party because the Songkran in Laos, the Songkran in Thailand, the Cambodian New Year, the Sinhalese New Year, and the Bihu pageant of Assam. When in Myanmar in the course of this time, do now no longer pass over this conventional pageant, and desire for the excellent good fortune in the course of the year.

Thingyan Festival is the Burmese New Year Festival or now and again known as the Water Festival due to the fact throwing water, spraying water, splashing water at every different are the principle sports on this pageant. It commonly falls in the course of the third a part of April (April 13-16). This is the maximum expected pageant of the Burmese and is just like Songkran in Laos, Songkran in Thailand, Cambodian New Year, Sinhalese New Year and Assam's Bihu pageant.

The records of the Thingyan Water Festival in Myanmar is going again an extended time, courting again to the Buddhist model of a Hindu myth. Thingyan, in Sanskrit (the language of historical India), means "the transit of the Sun from Pisces to Aries". Legend says that the Thingyan Festival is an occasion from which it indicates the extrade of palms of the pinnacle Brahma - a effective deity who misplaced his head in a raffle with the gods.

Location: Kandawgyi Pat Lann and Kabaraye Roads, Yangon, Myanmar
Time: thirteenth to sixteenth April