Water Festival celebrations off to a soaking start at Burmese Buddhist temples

GEORGE TOWN: They target the legs first and before you know it, you are drenched from top to toe.

Revellers at the Water Festival “fired” at visitors with their water guns at the Wat Chayamangkala­ram and Dhammikarama Burmese Buddhist temples in Burma Lane, where the three-day celebrations began yesterday.