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.
Amongst the various tours that you may opt for to enjoy the Elephant
Festival are:
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 (6th March,
2004). 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. 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.
Rajasthan Heritage Tour
