Tazaungdaing Festival:

          This festival is held on the full moon day of Tazaungmon according to the Myanmar Calendar (mid-November). Houses and public buildings are colorfully illuminated everywhere. Kathina robes and other requisites are offered to the Holy Order at Kahtein festival (ceremony of offering robes to monks). The offering of Mathothigan is held on the eve of the Full Moon Day of Tazaungmon. Mathothingan is a robe that is woven in a day. Today, teams of weavers compete with one another to complete weaving robes overnight. The woven robes are then offered to the great images of Buddha.

Photo Gallery of the Mathothigan Festival (2000) at the Shwedagon Pagoda

Shwe-zi-gon Festival

          Visitors to Bagan can see the splendid golden Shwe Zigon, a pagoda (Chedi) built in the same style as the great Shwe Dagon Pagoda in Yangon. Shwe Zigon was first built by King Anawrahta who enshrined in the pagoda a Tooth Relic of the Buddha which he had received from the King of Sri Lanka and also a Frontlet Relic he obtained from Thayekhittaya (Srikshetra) near Pyay (Prome). But King Anawrahta was able to complete only the lower three terraces of the pagoda before his sudden, tragic death, and it was the great King Kyansittha (AD 1084 - 1113) who completed the building of this pagoda which the Myanmar chronicles praise as being "famous in the world of men and the world of spirits as far as the world of Brahmas."

Hot air balloons & Rocket-firing festival (Taunggyi, Shan State)

          The festival of Tazaungmone in Taunggyi, the capital of Shan State is the most crowded and colourful in upper Myanmar. Evening, time event features, Candle-lit processions accompanied by traditional Shan and Pa-Oo dances and musics, hot air balloons and rockets are launched.

Kyaikhtiyo Pagoda Festival (Golden Rock)

          The impressive Golden Rock Pagoda in Kyaikhtiyo, Mon State, celebrates its festival on the 09th of December. Nine thousands of oil-lit offering is held on the pagoda platform.

Ballon-flying Festival

          Taunggyi has a special festival every November during the Full-moon Day of Tazaungmon, which this year falls on 22nd November 1999. This is the Buddhist festival of Tazaung-daing which is celebrated all over Myanmar and is a public holiday. In fact Tazaung-daing is also celebrated in Thailand as Loi Krathorn. It is a festival of Lights like Thadingyut, one month earlier in October which marks the end of the Buddhist Lent and also coincides with the retreat of the southwest monsoon from Myanmar. Thadingyut is sometimes marred by some rain and storms as it is a transitional period of seasonal change, but Tazaung-daing in November is a time of clear, bright blue, azure skies with hardly any clouds and so this second Festival of Lights is usually celebrated on a grander scale. In fact it is said to be a pre-Buddhist festival.

Photo Gallery of the Buddhist KaHtain Festival

November 3 to 25	Shwe-zi-gon Festival
November 5 to 10	Ballon-flying Festival
November 8 to 10	Than-bodde Ceremony
November 8 to 10	Myo-nam ceremony
November 9	Robe-weaving Contest
November 9 to 11	Kut-theinna-yon Festival
November 9	Astrologers' Ceremony
November 9 to 11	Pho-win-taung Ceremony
November 9	Flower Tossing Ceremony
November 9 to 11	13th Street Light Event
November 10	Tazaung-daing Festival of Lights
November 10	Candle Light Event
November 10	Fire Stick Festival
November 10	Hindu Sacred Bathing
November 10 to 16	Kaung-hmu-dw Festival
November 20	National Day
November 26	War-going Ceremony
November 26	Writers' Day