Biska Jatra is an annual event in Bhaktapur and Thimi in Nepal. The festival is celebrated at the start of the new year on the Bikram Sambatcalendar, however, the festival itself is not related to Bikram Sambat. Legend has it that this celebration is the “festival after the death of the serpent”. Numerous areas of Bhaktapur City celebrate this festival according to their own ritual. The most eventful places in the course of the festival are Bhaktapur Durbar Square and Thimi Balkumari. A huge chariot carrying a statue of the God Bhairava is pulled by hundreds of people to the Khalla Tole. Approximately a month earlier, the chariot is assembled near the Nyatapole temple (five-stair temple). The most spectacular event on Bhaktapur Taumadhi is a huge tug-of-war between the Thane (upper) and Kone (lower) parts of town. Each team tries to pull to their side but later the chariot heads toward Khalla Tole. A huge approximately 25 meters Yoh si Dyo is erected in the Yosi khyo on the evening of New Year, the Yoh si is pulled down as the New Year officially commences.
Another part of Bhaktapur called Balkumari Thimi has a very spectacular colors festival (Sindur Jatra). Folks from various parts of Madhyapur Thimi gather, carrying their own chariots in Layeku Thimi. People celebrate and share greeting throwing Simrik (red/orange) color powder, playing Dhimay music. A place called Bode witnesses a tongue-piercing ceremony. One of the residents spends the whole day with an iron spike pierced in his tongue and roams different parts of the city carrying multiple fire torches on his shoulders. Juju Bhai Shrestha is the most renowned and frequent tongue piercer in the town.
Welcome! to Kathmandu Nepal. Asian Heritage Treks & Travel Representative welcome you at the Airport with your nameplate. After Arrival at Nepal airport, transfer you to the hotel. On the way Airport to Hotel, you will pass by the (Pashupatinath temple), Royal Palace Museum i.e. Narayanhity, Garden Of Dream, and reach the Thamel. Your hotel will be downtown at Touristic Hub. Check in to your sumptuous room at the luxury 4-star Hotel Yatri suites & Spa. Our representative will facilitate you and discuss your travel itinerary. There will be enough time to stroll through the street of Thamel.
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Visit the UNESCO world heritage site, Kathmandu Durbar Square along with the tour guide in a private vehicle. Observe the typical wood-carved temples and buildings reflecting the ancient Kathmandu city. After then we will be heading towards Swyambhunath- the monkey temple where you can observe the religious harmony and tolerance between the Buddhist religion and Hindu religion along with that enjoy the panoramic view of Kathmandu city. Visit the Pashupatinath Temple, one of the biggest pilgrimage sites for the Hindu religion people in south-east Asia, explore the surroundings, observe the ritual body cremating ceremony process of the Hindu people at the bank of the holy Bagmati river, and then visit another pilgrimage site nearby to the Pashupatinath Temple known as Guweyswori Temple, explore the surroundings and then you will go to visit the another UNESCO world heritage site Boudhanath Stupa. It was built in 600 A.D. and is the only one of kind of stupa reflecting Buddhism in the world. Explore the surroundings of Boudhanath Stupa and after completing your sightseeing get back to the hotel and rest.
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Join Bisket Jatra festival
Have your breakfast early in the morning and our office representative will come to pick you up at the hotel to transfer you to the airport regarding your flight time. Have a safe journey onwards.
