Burmese New Year: Thingyan Festival
Come enjoy your day off with cool refreshing water activities and treat yourself with traditional burmese dessert.
What To Expect
- Water Splashing Activities
- Please bring spare clothes to change after the activities.
- Burmese dessert (Mote Lone Yay Paw)
- Thanakha
- Thingyan Music
About Thingyan
The Thingyan Festival is a traditional water festival celebrated in Myanmar, usually lasting around 4 days in mid-April. This water festival symbolises washing away the bad luck and sins of the past year and entering the Burmese New Year fresh and positive start.
In addition to the celebrations, families and communities come together to prepare and enjoy traditional snacks such as Mote Lone Yay Paw—sweet glutinous rice balls filled with palm sugar. Some local people would use chilli as filling to prank other. Making these treats is often a shared activity, bringing people closer through laughter and cooperation.
Thingyan is also a time for reflection and spiritual practice. Many people visit Buddhist temples and pagodas to make merit, offer food to monks, and pray for blessings in the coming year. Acts of kindness, respect for elders, and charitable giving are encouraged, highlighting the deeper cultural and religious significance of the festival beyond the festive atmosphere.