Myanmar to resume floating water festival at tourist site

Children celebrating during the traditional Thingyan Lighting Festival in Yangon, Myanmar, in 2020. - Xinhua

YANGON (Xinhua): Myanmar will resume a floating water festival in Inle Lake, a tourist site in Shan state, after a three-year pause due to the Covid-19 pandemic, an official from the Shan State Directorate of Hotels and Tourism said on Wednesday (March 29).

The floating Thingyan water festival will be held from April 13 to April 16 in Nan Pan village of Nyaungshwe township in Taunggyi District of Shan state.