Travel to Gangaur Festival - Jaipur - Rajasthan: -Gangaur Festival is a harvest festival, which is celebrated every year during the Hindu month of Chaitra (March - April) in Jaipur. The festival marks the end of winter and the dawn of spring.
It can be said with absolute certainty that the Gangaur Festival is the most colorful and important local festival of Rajasthan and is observed throughout the state with great fervor, enthusiasm and devotion by the women who worship Gauri, the consort of Lord Shiva and epitome of virtue and fidelity. It is the celebration of monsoon, harvest and marital fidelity in Jaipur.
During the festival, the women decorate their hands and feet with henna (Mehndi). The most interesting thing about the festival is the traditional procession, which commences from the Zanani-Deorhi of the City Palace and passes through Tripolia Bazaar, Gangauri Bazaar, Chaughan before finally converging near the Talkatora. This is followed by the immersion of the idol of Gauri in the lake. The procession is headed by a colorful pageantry of elephants, camels, horses, musicians, old palanquins, chariots and bullock carts.
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