Maha Thingyan Festival : Festival celebrated across the nation as Atat Day

Starting from the morning of April 16, which is the Atat or Final Day of the Myanmar Traditional Cultural Maha Thingyan Festival, Thingyan-loving people across the nation continue celebrating the New Year water festival joyfully and peacefully.

On Maha Thingyan ATat Day, at the Nay Pyi Taw City Mayor's Maha Thingyan Pavilion, renowned vocalists and ministry Thingyan Yein dance troupes are performing songs and elegant Yein dances. The pavilion is bustling with visiting public.

In addition, the Ambassador of Nepal to Myanmar, ambassadors from Cambodia, Pakistan, Brunei, and Bangladesh, chargés d' affaires, military attachés from military attaché offices, diplomats from United Nations agencies and honorary consulates, along with their family members watched and encouraged performances by Yein dance troupes featuring songs and elegant dances that showcase the traditional Myanmar New Year Thingyan at the Nay Pyi Taw City Hall Pavilion, and they happily participated in the Atar water festival together with the visiting public.

Similarly, the diplomats and Ambassadors watched and encouraged the peacefully and happily participating by the Thingyan-lovers at the Nay Pyi Taw Walking Thingyan features traditional Myanmar thanaka and lahpet festival pavilions, a htamanè pavilion, ministry-specific Thingyan pavilions, entertainment pavilions, and the diplomats also participated together with the public. In the same way, at the Yangon City Maha Thingyan Pavilion and water-play pavilions in Yangon's district zones, Thingyan-loving people are joyfully and peacefully celebrating the New Year water festival.

Additionally, at the Walking Thingyan Festival held at People's Square on Pyay Road in Dagon Township, Yangon, there are entertainment pavilions, walking water-play pavilions, and food stalls, where the public is celebrating peacefully and joyfully.

Similarly, at Thingyan pavilions along the Mandalay moat, including the Mandalay City Maha Thingyan Pavilion, which have been creatively designed and built in accordance with Myanmar traditional cultural heritage, there is exceptional crowding as families and groups of friends come to play Thingyan Atar water.

Yein troupes, vocalists, and artists, artists from Belarus and K-Pop artists are performing New Year Thingyan songs and joyfully celebrating ATat Day together with the audience.

This year's festival includes traditional ethnic pavilions, where ethnic traditional dances are performed, and traditional ethnic foods are offered as satuditha (charity feast). As a result, people coming from various regions are enjoying traditional foods while happily engaging in Thingyan water-play, making the festival exceptionally vibrant.