While they are driving, they are singing songs and shouting. Some ladies and women are among those on the cars. When they are driving, they spray water from pumps or they throw little plastic water-bags on each other and have fun. Some young people and children walk in groups carrying buckets or cans or plastic containers full of water, going to and fro along the roads. If they meet the water festival cars or the car passes by they throw little plastic water-bags and pour water on them.
Some young people spray water on the people on the cars by using big pumps from stages.
On the stages, there are music bands and a variety of dances done by the school girls. In Rangoon, the capital of Burma, the government builds many stages in different places for the government officials and their families to participate in the festival. In April the sun is so hot that the Water Festival players cannot play the whole day and they have to take a rest, mostly under the trees, in the afternoon. All the government offices and the shopping centers are closed for the holidays enabling all the people to celebrate the Water Festival and New Year. During these days, the prices of all kinds of foods and gas are higher than usual.