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Kyaikhtiyo Pagoda Festival
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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.
The platform and passage of the pagoda are usually filled with visitors from all over the country. Tourists also find the golden rock pagoda magnificent. Thadingyut usually falls in October. depending on the lunar calendar. At such a time. the weather is cold up on the mountain.
Place Kyaikhto. Mon State
Time During October. can change according to the Lunar Calendar