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Teej Festival: This festival is celebrated with great gaiety
by women in Jaipur. Teej is celebrated when the monsoon rains appear,
and the land turns green and fertile. The Teej festival commemorates
the day that the goddess Parvati was united with her consort Lord
Shiva. Women celebrate this day by wearing colorful clothes, meeting
other women and walking in a procession with the idol of Goddess Parvati
through the streets of Jaipur. The women pray to the Goddess for a
happy married life. The streets are colorfully decorated and shops
selling bangles and mehendi (henna) - to decorate the hands of women
- spring up in the streets. The Teej Festival has also been promoted
as a colorful event for tourists, with turban tying competitions,
bangle-wearing competitions, and musical and cultural performances.
Gangaur Festival: The Gangaur Festival celebrates the end of winter
and the marital bliss of Shiva and Parvati represented by Isar and
Gauri. A colorful procession, bearing their idols, makes its way through
Jaipur town in March or April, with elephants, horses, camels, bullocks
and palanquins. The procession ends when the idols are immersed in
the Lake. The Gangaur Festival is marked by colorful dances, musical
performances and joyful celebrations.
Elephant Festival: The Elephant Festival at Jaipur is held during
the festival of Holi every year. This popular tourist attraction sees
these gentle giants decorated in bright colors bearing tourists on
their backs, who are invited to play Holi by throwing colored powder
on each other. Events such as elephant races and elephant polo are
also held.
Urs at Ajmer: The annual celebration at the Dargah or tomb of
the Sufi saint Khwaja Muinuddin Chisti, in Ajmer is observed with
great fervor in June each year. Pilgrims of different religions come
from all over to seek the blessings of the great saint. Programs of
religious music or quawwalis are held all night long at the dargah
in which renowned singers participate. The intensity of the performance
has to be witnessed, to be truly appreciated.
Pushkar Fair: This annual camel fair held at Pushkar every year,
is a combination of a religious event, commercial fair and tourist
event. Held in November on the auspicious day of Karthik Purnima,
when Hindu's bathe in Pushkar Lake and pray at the Brahma Temple,
the camel fair includes busy buying and selling of camels and cattle,
along with cultural performances, a camel beauty pageant and a lot
of color and activity as people, horses, camels, donkeys converge
on this small town in Rajasthan.
Desert Festival: This colorful festival is held in Jaisalmer,
in February every year. Cultural events, camel races, turban tying
competitions, and contests to judge the man with the best moustache
are held at this festival in the golden sands of the Rajasthan Desert,
with a final musical performance by folk singers under the moonlit
sky at the dunes in Sam, just outside Jaisalmer.
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