New Year in Myanmar: people celebrate water festival

Vehicles carrying revelers line up towards a pavilion from where another group of revelers spray water during the traditional Thingyan celebrations in Yangon, Myanmar, Sunday, April 14, 2013. Myanmar celebrated its annual water festival, known as Thingyan, from Saturday, marking the start of the New Year according to the traditional Buddhist calendar.

Revelers spray water from a pavilion during the traditional Thingyan celebrations in Yangon, Myanmar, Sunday, April 14, 2013. <AP Photo/Khin Maung Win>

A child celebrates the water festival on a street in Yangon, Myanmar, April 14, 2013. Myanmar’s traditional Thingyan Water Festival kicked off in Yangon on Saturday morning with people, young and old, splashing water on each other.

People celebrate the water festival on a street in Yangon, Myanmar, April 14, 2013. <Xinhua/U Aung>