Festival Name : Moatsu Festival
Place: Nagaland
Festival Date: First Week of May
North East State Nagaland is a place for many Tribal People
or communities and also rich in Traditional and cultural heritage.
Among the tribal communities living in Nagaland, Ao Tribe
celebrates Moatsu Festival every year in the first week of May. Ao Tribe
performs different cultural activities and rituals during this time. The
festival usually comes after the crop harvesting, ploughing of fields, seeding,
cleaning up the water resources such as wells locally known as Tsubu with
another housing works like repair and building up the houses. This festival
gives an opportunity for recreation and entertainment to reflex their muscles
after the weeklong of physical stressful work. The environment becomes vibrant
and lively during Moatsu festival by peppy songs and dances on the pulsating
music by the tribal men and women.
The joy and fun of festival continues for full three days.
The ritual called Sangpangtu in which camp fire is lit up and the well-dressed villagers
sit around it are served wine and meat, which forms an intricate part of the
festival. A virtuous man who claims to have directed by the Almighty forecast
about good and bad days of natives and village.
This is also the time when best rice-beer is prepared and
the best breed of pigs and cows are slaughtered for the feast during the
festival. The women and men enjoy the festivity by participation in eating,
dancing, drinking and singing songs in praise of fighters and love with gusto.
How to Reach :
AIR
DIMAPUR has the only Airport in Nagaland at the moment.
Direct flights connect the airport to Guwahati and Kolkota and connections can
be made from all other airports in India
RAIL
Dimapur has a railway station on the main line of the
North east Frontier Railway. It is well connected to Guwahati, with a number of
trains that shuttle between the two stations every day. Guwahati, on the other
hand, has direct train lines with most major Indian cities.
ROAD
A number of taxis ply from Dimapur to Kohima. Night buses
connect Dimapur and Kohima to Guwahati and Shillong (Meghalaya). A very
convenient way for reaching Kohima is to take the train or flight to Dimapur
and then rent a taxi to Kohima. The Dimapur taxi stand is adjacent to the
Railway Station. Yellow taxis can be hired with other passengers (shared taxi)
or exclusive (full taxi).
A traveler can also opt to rent a car from Guwahati
(through tour operators) and drive all the way to Kohima. This is a very
pleasant drive, lasting about 6-7 hours and taking the tourist past beautiful
stretches of forests, greenery and hills.
NOTE: One should try to start and end the journey before
nightfall.
Videos of Moatsu Festival
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