Sinhala & Tamil New Year Festival

18/04/2016

Sinhala & Tamil New Year Festival is the most action-packed and significant event in the Sri Lankan calendar, Sinhalese Buddhist and Tamil Hindus in Sri Lanka join forces to celebrate their mutual new year in grand style. Festivities are prepared well in advance, families get together, new cloths & gifts shared, traditional sweets are made and exchanged with neighbors, traditional Sinhala games are played in every play grounds and firecracker sound is just nonstop, this is something to experience and unique as such as it is not celebrated elsewhere in the world.