SoCultures Magazine 2018 SoCultures Magazine December 2018 | Page 22

SOCULTURES DECEMBER 2018 Celebrations Celebrating New Beginnings New Year Myanmar New Year Fever A bright, colourful, noisy place Yangon boasts of great eclectic action-packed New Year parties. And it’s good to be surrounded by delicious international food, rooftop bars, where you can feel like sitting amidst stars to breathtaking view of the city. Enjoy the city view lit up with a colour burst and spectacular fireworks. Now, many affluent, luxury hotels also offer New Year packages of stylish curtain-raiser parties to roll in New Year celebrations. Well, if your idea of a New Year party to spend good times with close friends, then choose a friend’s balcony apartment and blow the confetti from the balcony, watch the entire world partying and listening your favourite slow jazz. Many love to go on a cruise or rent a boat and float in the placid lake with beautiful view of world surrounding them…isn’t the time to relish life with amazing buffet, cultural performances, pampered hospitality? Kandawgyi Lake! Kandawgyi Lake is one of two major lakes in Yangon, Burma, It’s also known as Royal lake built by British as water reservoir. Dance besides a bonfire complete with fireworks 22 | P a g e