Imagine a four-day rain dance, for more than 50 million people, spread over 676 thousand square kilometers, every year! Welcome to the biggest celebration in Myanmar – Thingyan, the Burmese new year. It is assumed that Water Festival of Myanmar has it’s origins in the harvest celebration of Holi in India.

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