Songkran - Sth East Asian New Year Fete
April 13th 2008 Our friends Sandar, Terence and Ohnmar, invited us to the Songkran Asian New Year and Water festival at the Wat Pa Buddharangsee Buddhist Temple at Leumeah. One of the highlights being delicious asian food from Australia, Burma, Cambodia, Lao, Malaysia, Sri-Lanka and Thailand.
Ohnmar, Sandar and their mother were working on the Burmese food stall, raising funds for the new temple that the Burme
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Buremese Entrant 2011 wearing Arakanese style
Love the Burmese dress in this photo...the entrant this year (2011) wore Arakanese (Rakhine) Style, it's wonderful to see democracy at work, really nice to see Arakanese ancient and exotic culture being displayed this year. Here is a Thai site about Arakan: http://www.seasuntour.com/index.php?lay=show&ac=article&Id=5353338&Ntype=3... Hope to see more of Burma's diverse ethnic groups being provided with opportunities to exhibit their cultures in this freedom loving country of ours and their identities being acknowledged.