It is a delightful festival of the hill people, Kachin and one of the most popular festivals in Myanmar. This festival has been held for more than three decades. Manaw festival is the celebration of the New Year, Victory in battles, reunion of the tribes etc. Everybody in town joins the spiritual dance lined up behind one another.

This is the biggest and most important pagoda festival in Central and Upper Myanmar. Villagers come in caravans of covered ox-carts and camp out for the duration of this exciting country fair.
 

Naga Festival is the social and the New Year celebration of the Nagas. The Naga national race comprises many different tribes with their own languages and culture.

Maha Muni Pagoda Festival, devotees light bonfires and cook huge pans of sticky rice with ginger, coconut and sesame to offer to monks. In other parts of the country this sticky rice is cooked as a celebration of the harvest and distributed within communities.

The nearest pagoda festival from Yangon, just 30 minutes drive. The festival is teeming with music troops, traditional dance performances, puppet show held in temporary theatres, vendors of miscellaneous item and food stalls. Local pilgrims visit to pay homage and enjoy the festival.

Mann Shwe Settaw Pagoda Festival is one of the most significant Pagoda Festival in Upper Myanmar. People from the entire nation pay Pilgrimage to the Pagoda during the festival days.

To celebrate the harvest, communities and organizations cook giant pans of sticky rice with ginger, coconut, peanuts and lots of sesame. Then offered to the Buddha and is given away for free to all the visitors to the pagodas.

During the festival time, thousands of devotees come from villages around the area to the cave. A kind of pagoda mall is set up at the foot of the hill under big shady Banyan trees to sell local products.

This is not just a religious festival but also a social occasion. Thousands of the Pa-O, Shan and Danu national races arrive by foot or boat to celebrate this 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.

Thanakha Grinding Festival is the traditional event of the Rakhines race. On festival day, all go to nearby pagodas and wash the Buddha images with Thanakha as a new-year eve good deed.

This is held to turn out talented and brilliant persons and members of the Sangha in flourishing period of Buddha Sasana, to support Pariyatti Sasana at highest level and to turn out brilliant persons who can recite Pitaka orally.

Pilgrims throughout the country gather wild flowers to offer at pagodas, and offer new robes to monks.

Devotees from all over Myanmar, comes to this special festival and offer their donations and enjoy themselves with the blessings of the spirits, every year. They pray for prosperity, fame, and luck for the next coming year.

This festival honours the Goddess of Popa, the mother of Taung Pyone two spirits brothers. Worshippers believed that she is a powerful spirit and protector of women.

During the festival, rice cakes and pickled winter melon are served to all comers from near and far. The Myinkaba region dwellers donate these to all visitors. This tradition is also believed to have been descended from the time of the King Manuha.

The biggest event in the southern area of Shan takes place at Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda that situated in Inle Lake. The large crowds of people gather on the lake-shores to celebrate the occasion.

Thadingyut Festival celebrates the return of the Buddha to earth from the abode of gods, where He had been preaching an especially profound section of His Doctrine for an entire Lent. Buddhists lighted up His way with candles, oil-lamps and torches.

An exciting festival focused on a huge Buddha image carved from a block of marble. It coincides with an annual competition among teams of cane-ball (chinlon) players.

It is a marvelous 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.

A great ceremony, there is a ritual of offering a filled alms bowl to a thousand and more monks and novices.

Kahtein Festival is held annually. The Kahtein robes and other offerings such as slippers, umbrellas, alms bowls, towels, soap and other necessities, cash offering in the shape of a tree (the padaytharpin) are presented to monks.

This festival of Tazaungmone is an auspicious time for offering of yellow robes to the monks. In commemoration of this event weaving competitions of yellow robes are held all over the country.

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.

The Kyaikhtiyo Pagoda Festival is a special festival of lights celebration. Locals offer the lighting of 9000 candles and 9000 flowers to the Buddha. The platform and passage of the pagoda are usually filled with visitors from all over the country.