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Festival Tours Program
Naga New Year Festaval
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Naga New
Year Festival
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Naga's biggest festival is new
year festival of January 15th, called
Kaing Bi and organized by
Naga festival committee who
choose each year's festival location and details under the
control of central government. All Naga
tribes send a few delegations to this occasion, thus
it is the perfect opportunity to see variety of different
Naga people at one place.
This year six Naga tribes and
Kuki-Chin tribe sent
delegations and total of more than 500 people participated. At
the same festival one year before, midnight of new year's eve,
Naga chief made a pray pouring
Naga wine at the festival site. When the pray was
over, youngsters killed cattle, pigs and chickens with big
knives, which were carried away by females and cooked to be
served as
Naga
dishes at the festival. When festival starts, white and red
Naga wine made of rice are
served in bamboo glasses. Before and after this grand festival,
various villages of Naga
held their own small gatherings with children and others.
Naga wear a decoration made with hair of hunted head, mostly dark
but fair hairs were also spotted. They also held a kind of
ritual at the seeding season in the field but people simply
gather at their garden with family members only.
When animism was believed by all villagers, there were many
festivals almost monthly but most villages open to the
foreigners today are no longer into animism, abandoning their
traditional festivals.
On Indian borders, western side of Mt.Saramati
and
Hukawing valley there said to
remain several animism villages. After the new year festival,
single boys and girls gather for a night and enjoy themselves,
but only Naga people are
allowed into the party. There are a few
Bachelor Houses, called
MORUNG, per village and just
like Japanese youngsters in the past, they go out there and live
together, which has separate rooms for different couples,
according to the Myanmar Encyclopedia's 1971 issue. Other
reports say inside the bachelor house there are no separate
rooms and couples go outside to enjoy themselves. It is quite
different from Indian Naga's MORUNG.
Today, even the villages of no animism belief have a gathering
at MORUNG at the new year
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Tours Program (7days/ 6nights)
Day 1 (Jan 11)
Arrive Yangon by morning
flight and sightseeing. Stay overnight at hotel,
Yangon.
Day 2 (Jan 12)Fly to Hkamti via Mandalay, half hours cruises from
Hkamti to Sinthae village by crossing Chindwin
river. Lunch and refreshments at Sinthae village and
continue to Leshi by light air truck. Arrive at Naga
Land, Leshi, in the evening and check into your
fantastic accommodations that built with native
materials. Dinner and rest for the night.@ |
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Day 3 (Jan 13)Visit to Naga Villages around Leshi and their ways of
life, study dancing and singing the rehearsals of
the groups. Dinner and Overnight at Leshi.
Day 4 (Jan 14)Watch for the erection of the traditional Naga
Ceremonial Pole at the festival grounds. Pre-sport
contest in the morning and various Naga Clans in all
their traditional costumes will be there to
participate. Performing Stage show by the Naga Youth
in the evening. Dinner and overnight at Leshi.
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Day 5 (Jan 15)The official opening ceremony of Naga New Year
follows by the array of program, including Dance and
Sport competitions. In the evening, a large bonfire
is lit and everybody take part in welcoming Naga New
Year, dancing around the bonfire. Dinner and
overnight at Leshi.
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Day 6 (Jan 16)Leave the Naga New Year festival and head back to
Yangon by the same route. Stay overnight at hotel,
Yangon.
Day 7 (Jan 17)Morning shopping and transfer to the airport for
departure by evening flight. |
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THIS YEAR IT IS GOING TO FALL ON JANUARY 14~15, 2005
Please feel free to contact us for this special event itinerary. |
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