Myanmar Festival 2020-2021

We've got over 200 festivals each year, documented in Myanmar festival calendar. Dates and places of each festival are described, when you click each link. Come. Visit and enjoy together! We have 135 ethnic groups and 135 different cultures to experience when you travel to Myanmar, the Golden Land.


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Shwezigon Pagoda Festival

Shwezigon Pagoda Festival
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Hot Air Balloon Festival

Hot Air Balloon Festival
On this occasion people enjoy fun and merriment by holding firework-launching competitions. The firework is in the form of rockets. There is also hot balloons competitions on the day and night occasions. Day balloons are usually in the form of Pagodas.
 
Panguni Utram
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Htamanai Festival (Harvest Festival)

Htamanai Festival
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Respect for top priorities
Come Tabodwe (February). the eleventh month of the Myanmar calendar. we have the harvest festival and the making of htamanai. a concoction of glutinous rice. coconut slices. sesamum seeds. peanut and a generous amount of cooking oil.
 

Maw Tin Soon Pagoda Festival

Maw Tin Soon
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Shwedagon Pagoda Festival

Shwedagon Pagoda Festival
The festival of the Shwedagon Pagoda is celebrated on the fullmoon day of Tauaung (March) every year. Many people in the country contributes funds for the repairing and a great number of people pay homage every day. There are many festivals throughout the year.
 

Htamane Cooking Festival

Htamane Cooking Festival
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Shwesayan Pagoda Festival

Shwesayan Pagoda Festival
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Shwe San Daw Pagoda Festival

Shwe San Daw Pagoda Festival
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Kyaik Khauk Pagoda Festival

Kyaik Khauk Pagoda Festival
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Kason Watering Festival

Kason Watering Festival
It is the season water in all ponds. lakes and creeks reduces to its lowest level. During the month of Kason the length of the day is longer and the night is shorter. People of Myanmar regard the month of Kason as Taurus season and the sign of the zodiac is a ball.
 

Matho Thingan (Yellow Robe) Weaving Festival

Matho Thingan
This festival of Tazaungmone is an auspicious time for offering of yellow robes to the monks. The Buddha’s mother, reincarnated as a god in Tavatimsa, perceived from her heavenly abode that her son would soon be discarding, the royal robes and wearing a monk’s garments.
 

Kaunghmudaw Pagoda Festival

Kaunghmudaw Pagoda Festival
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Manuha Pagoda Festival

Manuha Pagoda Festival
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Waso Full Moon Festival

Waso Full Moon Festival
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Kyaikhtiyo Pagoda Festival

Kyaikhtiyo Pagoda
The Kyaikhtiyo Pagoda Festival is a special festival of lights celebration. On the Full Moon Day of Thadingyut. locals offer the lighting of 9000 candles and 9000 flowers to the Biuddha. On the next morning. rice. sweets and other snacks are offered.
 

Shwe Kyin Light Festival

Shwe Kyin Light Festival
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Kyauk Taw Gyi Pagoda Festival

Kyauk Taw Gyi Pagoda Festival
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Thingyan Water Festival

It is believed that water festival washes away sins and welcomes the New Year. The water festival represents the most popular. raucous and colorful celebration of the year for more than 120 million people who will abandon any thoughts of work and bring their nations to a standstill.
 

Elephant Dance Festival

Elephant Dance Festival
Dancing Elephant Festival is also another famous festival in Myanmar. It is held in Kyaukse. near Mandalay. It is a marvellous performance of two men together to dance in rhythm. A huge elephant figure is made from bamboo and paper. Men take their places inside the figure and dance around the town to the accompaniment of Dobat and Drums.
 

Inn Daw Gyi Shwe Myitzu Pagoda Festival

Inn Daw Gyi Shwe Myitzu
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Naga New Year Festival

Naga New Year Festival
Numerous Naga tribes spread throughout the north-western hills of Myanmar. Most of the Naga are from the Chin State. But the festival place falls in the Sagaing Division. next to the Chin State.
 

Yadana Gu Spirit Festival

Yadana Gu Spirit Festival
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Salone Festival

Salone Festival
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Pakokku Thiho Shin Pagoda Festival

Pakokku Thiho Shin Pagoda Festival
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Alaungdaw Khathapa Pagoda Festival

Alaungdaw Khathapa
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Mann Shwe Settaw Pagoda Festival

Mann Shwe Settaw Pagoda Festival
 
Mann Shwe Settaw Pagoda Festival is one of the most significant Pagoda festival in Upper Myanmar. It is 36 miles from Magwe to the Mann Shwe Settaw which is also well known as Mann footprint across Ayeyawaddy river bridge. Magwe.
 

Shwe Nattaung Pagoda Festival

Shwe Nattaung Pagoda Festival
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Myanmar Regatta Festival

Myanmar Regatta
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The royal Naval Expedition of A.D. 1841 via the brimful Ayeyawaddy River and also by land as recorded in the Great Royal Chronicle of the Konbaung Dynasty Vol. III was a grand flotilla and parade combined with 15.000 men. 320 war elephants. some 500 steeds and over 1.000 boats. barges. and water crafts of all sizes and kinds.
 

Popa Guardian Spirits Festival

Popa Guardian Spirits Festival
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Tazaungdine Festivel or A time of enjoyment

Tazaungdine Festivle or A time of enjoyment
 
Myanmar is known as the Golden Land, but it can also properly be called the Land of Festivals, as religious and cultural celebrations take place all across the country and throughout the year.
 

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