The southwest province of Yunnan in China is home to the prefecture of Xishuangbanna, which offers a splendid cultural offering that is worth discovering. It is home to the Dai ethnic community, which accounts for 34% of the state’s population and the annual water-splashing festival in the month of April is a fun event celebrated and enjoyed to the fullest by locals and visitors alike. The best way to soak up the festivities is from a quality hotel Yunnan has to offer its visitors, such as the Anantara Xishuangbanna. With its elegantly-appointed interiors and scenic locale, it is an ideal hotel in Yunnan to host your stay. When you visit Xishuangbanna during the month of April, which coincides with the Chinese New Year, you are in for a special treat: the annual water-splashing festival is a fun event that is guaranteed to provide waves of excitement, laughter and fun for the entire family! So bring your super-soakers, squirt guns and event buckets and bowls – anything that can hold and ultimately splash water on your fellow splashers and don’t be afraid to take the plunge and splash away! Splashing people is taken to be an auspicious way of wishing them well for the new year and also is a symbolic of washing away the old energies, making way for new fortune to enter one’s life. But raucous aquatic fun is only part of the festivities, as the whole of Xishuangbanna unites for this special holiday with an array of colourful parades, dances, dragon boat races, various fairs, and performances that must be experienced firsthand for ultimate enjoyment.
Angela Fernando is an impassioned travel writer who composes pieces under the pen name Sumaira Narayan. She loves writing about new and exciting places around the world and intends to visit them all someday.