Myanmar New Year & Thingan Festival Thingyan marks the changing of the old year to the new. Actually, it is the Myanmar New Year Festival. The Myanmar New Year usually falls on the second week of April on the 13th or on the 14th. It lasts for three or four days. It is said that the festival period begins when the Thagyarmin, the king of the celestial Beings, desends from his abode to the earth. Thingyan comes when the summer's heat is at its peak. New Year is the time fro people to cleans themselves of the defilements they might have collected during the year and look forward to a better life.
