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Nat Festival in Taungboyne

Nat Festival in Taungboyne

Taungboyne, Myanmar, ten thousands of people are visiting the biggest annual six days lasting Nat festival that always takes place before fullmoon in August. Nats are spirits that live in plants, nature and also animals and humans. Two brother nats were buried in Taungboyne, at that place a big temple was built. This Nat festival is held to their honor. Men dress up as women and become a medium between the nats and the people. They are called nat-gadaw, wife of the nats, because they claim to be married to a nat.

Pinkie and her dance group WAVE Moon Bakery in Yangon Street construction Gold leaves making in Mandaly Nunnery in Sagaing, Myanmar A novice festival in Shan State Nat Festival in Taungboyne Buddhist Novice Festival in Shan State A typical Burmese snack Baptist school graduation ceremony A family of the Danu tribe in Shan State is having dinner A little girl is reading a comic book upside down, Shan State Opposition Comedians The Moustache Brothers in front of their home and stage A photo studio at the Nat Festival in Taungboyne Nat shrine in Inle Lake A kindergarden for mixed ethnies and religions in Shan State Ei Ei Hen, a chinlone player, during practice in Mandalay