Festival of Colors: Holi |
Holi is the most colourful and joyful festivals across the globe, celebrate d by the Indians world over. The festival brings rainbows of Gulal to the streets of India. The festival symbolises the unity in diversity and the rich colourful cultural heritage of the country. Celebrated mainly by the hindus the festival bring together everyone in the celebrations with folk songs, colours and water. To experience Holi in its true essence, no better place to be in than Mathura-Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh, the birthplace of the hindu deity Lord Krishna and the origin point of the festival of holi. Braj ki Holi is laden with innumerable colours, mouth-watering food, age-old traditions and unrestrained fun. Vrindavan, and neighbouring areas draw a number of tourists every year to be a part of the world famous festivities. Holi is spread over a week in Brij, starting from the first day after the Phalgun Amavasi. Special sweets are also prepared for this festival especially gujiya, a dumpling-like sweet that filled with dried fruits and nuts spiced with cardamom. Men also enjoy bhang–a milky beverage mixed with a paste of the buds and leaves of cannabis grown high in the Himalayas. Consumed for 3,000 years, this weed milkshake connects through mythology to the powerful monk god Shiva–and sold in government-run bhang shops.
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