Rice Planting Festival (Ropai Jatra)

This Festival is celebrated every year on Ashad 15 (29th June) as an interesting event, with the wishes of producing more crops. It also symbolize that the day is the end of planting period. On the festival day we all visit the farm fields (Paddy farm) where ladies plant the rice plant and gentleman plough the field to make the land suitable for planting the paddy. Every year tourists participate in the festival and took part in running competition on muddy paddy field, play mud and have a fun in Pokhara. Folk song competitions, planting rice competitions and several other entertaining games are organized during the festival. Rice Planting Festival (Ropai Jatra) is the rice planting ceremony in which participants perform plowing and planting on the field. Farmers do planting and plough ... Read More

Fewa Mahotsav in Pokhara with a slogan of Save Fewa Lake

The program of Fewa Mahotsav with a slogan of "Save Fewa Lake" has been finalized for 07th Apr’10 to 15th Apr’10, which will take place at lakeside Pokhara on the occasion of Nepali New Year 2068. The organizer; Pokhara Hotel Association is planning for various recreational and food festival kind of programs to mark the event. The program will commence with a procession of people playing Panche Baja (five Nepali folk instruments), music and Jhaki of various ethnic groups dressed in different Nepali costumes. There will sport competitions and other functions to provide the multiple options of recreation to the visitors. The program is promoted by Nepal Tourism Board. Hotels in Pokhara are providing special offers to their guest on this occasion; offer are one n ... Read More