This festival happens every fall around Inle Lake. There is very limited information on the websites on google. Anyone ever been there for the festival? Is it worth it? any ideas for more info?
Thank you,
SH
Phaung Daw Oo Kyaung Festival
Hi SusanH For information you are seeking. Try www.myanmartravelinformation.com in google search. Follow prompts to Myanmar Festivals. Paung Daw Oo Festival is in late September or early October of each year.
Best wishes
Sydneybob71
Phaung Daw Oo Kyaung Festival
U%26#39;d better search.. your own..
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Victor Aung
The Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda Festival is one of the most famous pagoda festival in Myanmar and well known all over the world. The festival is held every year during the month of October and lasts for more than 20 days as the 4 Buddha Images are taken around the lake in a gilded barge pulled by hundrerds of leg-rowers in long canoes in front.These images sometimes stay over night at some villages and sometimes just stop over for a short while. Rowing competitions are also held. Pilgrims from all over the country come to this festival to pay homage to the Buddha Images. Many are from the plains, some from the mountains, while others are from small remote villages but everybody is here to gain merit and enjoy the festive air of the event. Foreign tourists are also fascinated not only by the religiouness of the festival goers but also with the generosity of the pilgrims as they pray in front of the Images and offer tissue thin gold leaves to put on the Images. This sense of true generosity and the religiousness of the people is evidenced by the Images itself for after decades of being gilded by countless number of gold foils they had become huge globes of gold.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P04NbJbpTp4
go to the link to see photo and video..
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