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 | | Shwekyin oil-lamp floating festival is in fact an auspicious occasion in honour of shin Upa Gutta Mahte local people offer colourful oil-lamps in the water of the creek praying for prosperity and to be free from danger and any bad luck. |
 | | Besides praying for prosperity, health and good luck to the Shin Upagutta Mahte honorable disciple of the Buddha who Buddhists pray for the prevention of an outpour of rain whenever special occasions or festivals are held, or when people go on sea-faring trips or travel on the waterway. |
 | | You will find it spectacular to watch all the floating lights circling the shin Upagutta Mahte and the reflections of the hundreds of coloured lights on the surface of the water, under the silvery moon, on the day after the full moon day of Thadingyut. |
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