India Famous Festivals - coming soon 29th-30th Jun

Leh Monastic Festival

Names of the Festival	Venue	2012	2013
Spitok Gustor	Spituk	JAN 21,22	JAN 9,10
Stongde Gustor	-	JUL 06-07	JUN 26-27
Dosmoche	Leh ,Likir & Deskit Monasteries	FEB 19,20	FEB 8,9
Likir & Diskit	-	FEB 19-20	FEB 08-09
Stok Guru Tse-Cue	Stok Monastery	FEB 2,3	FEB 19,20
Matho Nagrang	Matho Monastery	FEB 7,8	FEB 24,25
Sindhu Darshan	-	JUN 12-14	JUN 12-14
Sake Dawa (Buddha Purnima )	Shey Buddhist Monastery	MAY 04	MAY 25
Hemis TSE-CHU	Hemis Monastery	JUN 29,30	JUN 18,19
Yuru Kabgyat (Lamayuru)	Lamayuru Monastery	JUNE 16,17	JUN 5,6
Zanskar Karsha Gustor	Karsha Monastery	JUL 15,16	JUL 6,7
Ph-Yang Tsedup (Phyang)	Phyang Monastery	JUL 16,17	JUL 6,7
Korzok Gustor (Tsomoriri Lake)	Korzok Monastery	JUL 22,23	JUL 11,12
Dak-Thok Tse-Chu	Dakthok Monastery	JUL 28,29	JUL 18,19
Sant Naro Nasjal (Zangskar)	Sani Monastery, Zanskar	AUG 1,2	JUL 21,22
Shachukul Gustor	Shachukul Monastery	JUL 5,6	JUN 25,26
Ladakh Festival	Leh and surrounding villages	SEP 1~15	SEP 1~15
Thiksay Gustor	Thiksey Monastery	NOV 1,2	NOV 20,21
Chemrey Angchok	Chemrey Monastery	NOV 11,12	NOV 30, DEC 01
Galdan Namchot	All Over Ladakh	DEC 08	DEC. 27
Losar	All over Ladakh	DEC 14	JAN

Kerala Festival Calendar 

 

Name of Festival 2012 2013 2014 2015 Elephant Pageants  Adoor Gajamela 3 Feb 2012 23 Jan 2013 9 Feb 2014 30 Jan 2015 Parippally Gajamela 4 Mar 2012 3 Mar 2013 2 Mar 2014 1 Mar 2015 Arattupuzha Pooram 4 Apr 2012 25 Mar 2013 15 Mar 2014 1 Apr 2015 Thrissur Pooram 1 May 2012 21 Apr 2013 9 May 2014 28 Apr 2015 Uthralikavu Pooram 28 Feb 2012 26 Feb 2013 25 Feb 2014 24 Feb 2015 Pariyanampetta Pooram 20 Feb 2012 19 Feb 2013 19 Feb 2014 19 Feb 2015 Chinakkathoor Pooram 7 Mar 2012 5 Feb 2013 14 Mar 2014 4 Mar 2015 Kottakkal Pooram 19 to 25 Mar 2012 5 to 11 Apr 2013 27 Mar to 1 Apr 2014 17 to 22 Mar 2015 Guruvayoor Aanaottam 5 Mar 2012 23 Feb 2013 12 Mar 2014 2 Mar 2015 Thutha Pooram 8 May 2012 14 May 2013 13 May 2014 12 May 2015 Peruvanam Pooram 1 Apr 2012 22 Mar 2013 8 Apr 2014 9 Mar 2015

Boat Races  Nehru Trophy Boat Race 11 Aug 2012 10 Aug 2013 9 Aug 2014 8 Aug 2015 Indira Gandhi BoatRace 28 Dec 2012 28 Dec 2013 28 Dec 2014 28 Dec 2015 Aranmula Boat Race 2 Sep 2012 23 Aug 2013 10 Sep 2014 31 Aug 2015 Champakulam Boat Race 3 July 2012 23 June2013 11 July 2014 1 July  2015 Payippad Boat Race 31 Aug 2012 21 Aug 2013 8 Sep 2014 30 Aug 2015 Kumarakom Boat Race 31 Aug 2012 18 Sep 2013 8 Sep 2014 30 Aug 2015

Onam Onam to the festival 29 Aug 2012 16 Sep 2013 7 Sep 2014 28 Aug 2015 Athachamayam 21 Aug 2012 7 Sep 2013 29 Aug 2014 18 Aug 2015 Pulikali 31 Aug 2012 21 Aug 2013 8 Sep 2014 30 Aug 2015

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Upcoming Festival - Moatsu Festival Nagaland

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