The Tazaungdaing festival contains massive light displays

Video. Watch: Myanmar holds its Tazaungdaing light festival

People gathered in the hills of central Myanmar to enjoy the annual Tazaungdaing light festival that marks the end of the rainy season in a fiery nighttime display of exploding hot air balloons. The festival took place in Pyin Oo Lwin for the first time in two years, after the Covid pandemic and unrest following the military’s coup last year.

People gathered in the hills of central Myanmar to enjoy the annual Tazaungdaing light festival that marks the end of the rainy season in a fiery nighttime display of exploding hot air balloons. The festival took place in Pyin Oo Lwin for the first time in two years, after the Covid pandemic and unrest following the military’s coup last year.

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