Local and foreign visitors to the Bagan Ancient Cultural Zone enjoy taking photos with the puppets hanging from the trees and purchasing these puppets during the Thadingyut festival.
Bagan is
crowded with visitors during the Taungpyone Festival in Wagoung, the Aba Boe
Min Khaung Festival at Popa in Tawthalin and Thadingyut, the Bagan Thadingyut
Festival, the New Year Festival and the Thingyan Festival. Although the number
of visitors to Bagan might decline during the COVID-19 period and due to the
political situation and flooding in September, the locals are making
preparations to provide services to travellers to Bagan, where ancient cultural
heritage is concentrated.
As the
hotels are fully booked this year, the local businesspeople estimated that the
number of visitors to Bagan this year will be higher than the number of
visitors during the 2023 Thadingyut Festival. Moreover, they prepare to
facilitate the travellers arrivals and trading. There are many Margosa or Nim
trees, Vachellia leucophloea trees, pagodas, and temples in Bagan that are
symbols of the Bagan Ancient Cultural Heritage Zone. Moreover, visitors ride
horse carts, take photos with puppets hanging from the trees, and buy the
puppets to display at houses, companies, hotels, shopping centres and
restaurants as decoration.
The wooden
puppets such as male dancer, female dancer, Zawgyi, king, minister, general,
Kyansittha, Manisanda, Thungetaw, ogre, Kinnari/Kinnara, Napansan, elephant,
horse, spiritual Nat, Thagyamin, monk, nun, Pyittinehtaung are hanging from the
Margosa trees near the pagodas. The prices of 6, 8, 10, and 12-inch puppets
range from K8,000 to K100,000 per head. A fully decorated puppet with string
costs K1 million. Moreover, the shops sell triangle-shaped solid brass gongs,
gongs, bells, masks and small bells.
The local
travellers enjoy taking photos with these hanging puppets, and it can be done
free of charge or with extra charges.
Thitsa
(MNA)/KTZH
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