festivals of Malaysia

Malaysia is a mutli rasial country so there is a lot of festivals

Deepavali- festivals of lights

- Celebrated by hindus
- Defeat of evil over light

Hari gawai - The Gawai Dayak festival, officially celebrated yearly on 1 June in Sarawak,
On Gawai eve, the Iban community conducts miring, a thanksgiving and
blessings ceremony, marked by offerings to the departed ancestors, spirits, and
deities. The ceremony invites the spirits to celebrate with the longhouse community
and is continued with open houses with family and friends.

Hari kaamatan - is a rice harvest festival . celebrated on 30 and 31 of May

annually in Sabah . It is normally celebrated by the ethnic Kadazan-Dusuns, as well as by
other related ethnic groups in the state, and lasts for the whole of the month of May . A
beauty pageant known as Unduk Ngadau will be held and it ends the harvest festival with
a newly crowned Unduk Ngadau in the annual host district, Popular drinks during the
festival are tapai and Kinomol, which is a traditional alak drink. Tapai is drunk from a small
bamboo vessel known as a sumbiling or from special glasses called singgarung, likewise
made from bamboo