Festivals of India

Elephant Festival - Every Year in March

Elephant Festival is the annual festival of the elephants held at the pink city of India- Jaipur. This year the festival will be celebrated on the 6th of March. There will be processions of elephants, camels and horses. Amongst the must checkouts at the Elephant festivals are the elephant races, elephant polo matches and the tug of war between the elephants and the men.

Holi - Every Year in March

The festival of Holi begins on Duwadashi- on the twelfth day of the waxing moon of the month of Phalgun. Spirits run high as preparations for the festivities begin. Coloured powder (Gulal) is bought and prepared, long syringes called 'pichkari' are made ready and water balloons are bought and filled. Preparations are made to cook the special food items that exclusively are meant for this festival.

Since Holi is celebrated almost all over India the various tours that you may opt for to enjoy the festival of Holi are:

Rath Yatra - Every Year in June/July

One of the four most famous holy pilgrimages of the Hindus in India is the Jagannath Temple of Puri, Orissa. The festival of Rath Yatra celebrated here, is world famous for the enormous crowd of devotees that gathers to witness Lord Jagannath's yearly journey in his huge chariot. Perhaps the only deity to be brought out of the temple every year, Lord Jagannath, with his brother Balabhadra and sister Subhadra, goes to his garden house for five days, visiting his aunt on the way. At the end of the five days, the three siblings are brought back to the Jagannath temple in a procession called the Ultarath.

Hill Resorts Tour

A subcontinent in itself, India is a land of diversity. From perennial shorelines to snow capped mountains, languidly spread desert to evergreen forests, India's topography is a wondrous gift of nature. And a natural gift that is unique to India are its many hill stations, peppered all over the country. The most unique thing about the hill stations of India is the fact that they exist only in India - a contribution of colonial India. In other parts of the world, we consider the visiting places in the hills as Hill Resorts.