Manau Festival Photos

The entrance of Kachin Manau Park, Myitkyina

Dancing around the Manau poles at the Kachin Manau Festival

Leaders of the Kachin tribe dressed in colourful traditional dresses

Many different tribes come to join and dance at the Kachin Manau Festival

Old or young, everyone enjoys the festival

Foreign visitors dancing together with the locals

Long two-faced drum made of calf or water buffalo leather, known as the Long Drum or Great Drum

A cute young girl fully-dressed participating in the festival

A beautiful Kachin damsel enjoying the festival

Twelve poles are fixed in the very centre of the enclosure set aside for the celebrations

Various clans in full ceremonial national dress dancing together

Clans include the Maru, Lashi, Azi, Zaiwa, Rawang, Lisu and Jinghpaw

Another young girl looking at the traditional dance

The two groups first dance in rows gradually forming crescents and finally forming one large circle

The Kachin leaders hold the Kachin N-Htu or sword, as an important feature of the Manau Dance

The red and black Kachin ladies dancing together

Every year more and more Kachins participate in this festival

Dancing round and round the Kachin Manaw poles

Beautiful Kachin damsels lining up to dance one after another

Now the dance is a mixture of modern and old times

The leaders bow infront of the Manaw poles and start the dance

Children dressed in Kachin Traditional dress

Different types of Ethnic groups in different color dresses

More tourist come to visit this joy and colourful festival

An old Kachin lady demonstrating the weavings of local cloth

Fully dressed Kachin lady

Dancing near the Manau Poles in the dancing ground

The Kachin Manau festival is usually held during January every year

Colourful Lisu groups participating in the Manau festival

Manau means Peace and Union of the Kachin State

Mostly all Kachins from near and far come back to this festival

Colourful Rawang Tribes

Elders of the Rawang Tribes dancing with swords

Kachin Manau Festival

Tourist enjoying and participating in the Manau Festival