Myanmar Festivals

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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Manuha Pagoda Festival
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Kachin Manaw Festival
Kachin is one of the states which has a delightful festival known as Manaw. Kachin. the hill people or the Scots of Myanmar. celebrate Manaw 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.
 
Taungpyone Sprits Festival
The Nats (spirits) are believed to be super natural powerful beings. stated between the gods and the spiritual beings. Most of the Myanmar people worship the Nats as a religious belief. The Nat Pwe is usually held for three days. The first day is for the Summoning the Nats. This spirits festival is one of the most interested events for tourists. where believers go yearly to Taung Pyone (Mt. Pyone). which is the home of the spirits.
 
Inn Daw Gyi Shwe Myitzu
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Mount Popa Spirit Festival
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Shwe Maw Daw Pagoda Festival
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Thadingyut (fesival of lights)
 
October is the time when the people of Myanmar celebrate with joy and lights: the Full Moon of October or the month of Thadingyut according to the local lunar calendar, marks the end of three months of Buddhist Lent when weddings, fairs and festivals are not permitted. 
 
Tazaungdaing
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Pakokku Thiho Shin Pagoda Festival
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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.
 
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.
 
Salone Festival
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Waso Full Moon Festival
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Warso Chin-Lone (Cane Ball) Festival
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The Equestrian Festival
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Thanakha Grinding Festival
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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.
 
Shwesayan Pagoda Festival
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Popa Guardian Spirits Festival
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Shwe Nattaung Pagoda Festival
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Htamane Cooking Festival
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Maw Tin Soon
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Alaungdaw Khathapa
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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.
 
Shwezigon Pagoda Festival
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Pho Win Taung Pagoda Festival
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Independence Day
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In the 19th century, following three Anglo-Burmese Wars, Burma was colonized by Britain.
 
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.
 
Shwe Myat Mhan Pagoda Festival
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Yadana Gu Spirit Festival
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