Lo Sar festival- Heralding in year in the Himalayas. Ladakh
Sikkim snow and cultural festival, Sikkim
Pushkar Camel Fair, Pushkar, Rajasthan.
Hornbill, Nagaland
Sunburn Goa
Rajasthan International folk Festival
NH7 Weekender Goa
Indian Art Fair New Delhi
Singhe Khababs Spring Festival - Sindhu Darshan, Leh Ladakh.
Festivals of Ladakh
Mountain echoes
Desert Festival Jaisalmer: A good article from Times Crest.
Held every year from February 23rd to 25th.
Attractions:Camel polo, camel dressing, a turban tying competition, and 'Mr Desert' and 'Mr Moustache' contests, Camel race. The festival, however is the Jaisalmer festival is low on glamour quotient. . While Pushkar's Mela attracts about 5 lakh tourists every year, the Jaisalmer Desert festival attracts just about 50, 000 people.
The camel rides at Sam desert and safaris deep into the Thar are favorite with visitors.
For Rs 1, 000-1, 500 you can spend a night in the desert, under the starlit sky, with makeshift bedding and basic cooking. Some local hotels, like Suryagarh, take their guests out for dinner on the dunes. With bonfires blazing, the guests are entertained by Manganyaar singers and Kalbelia dancers even as the hotel staff feeds them the choicest grilled Rajasthani foods.
The walls of cubbyhole houses are painted a bright blue, green and even pink, and the narrow cobbled lanes are refreshingly cool, windy and winding. They are crammed with souvenir shops, cows, bikes and bicycles. If you want to buy something pick up a 'dahi' bowl made from 'fossil stone'. You can apparently curdle milk in it without adding curds.
A number of fossils have been unearthed from here. The collection which include sea shells tree trunks have been housed at a nearby village at Akal.
Music Festivals
Escape Festival: Music by the lake! It is a potpourri of music, art, comedy, photography and painting held in the cool environs of The Lake Resort, Naukuchiatal, in the month of May.
India's largest festival for Bikers. It is a festival of bikes, bikers and music.
lShad Suk Mynsiem festiva- Shillong
A three day dance festival the Shad Suk Mynsiem (Dance of Happy Hearts) takes place i n the month of April. This year was the 102nd anniversary of the festival which started in the year 1911.
Shad Suk Mynsiem is an annual thanksgiving dance festival performed by the people of the Khasi tribe. With the departure of winter the tribe offer prayer to God for a bumper harvest. Both men and women, in traditional dresses, dance to the beat of the drums and Tangmuri- a musical pipe popularly considered as a queen of musical instruments.
