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Bisket Jatra Festival, Tradition and combination

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Bisket Jatra: Tradition and combination.

Bisket Jatra is one of the most popular festivals in Bhaktapur and this festival considered one of the most valuable both for cultural and historical significance in Bhaktapur. This festival is celebrated in mid-April or first week of March. This festival is a part of Bisket Jatra. It welcomes the Nepali new year and marks the arrival of Spring season. Thousands of people from different districts gather to participate in this festival. They welcome Spring season through a procession. Devotees gather in Madhyapurthimi, carrying 32 chariots with idols of various deities.

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This huge festival is also celebrated by Tongue piercing. A resident spends the day with pierced tongue, wearing an iron collar and walking around the city, carrying a very bright torch on his shoulder.

According to tradition, only Bodeka locals of the Shrestha dynasty can be volunteers to pierce their tongues.
The tongue piercing festival is run by the community, carrying the entire financial burden. For the first time in 1855, during the Third Plague, the historic Malla era was cancelled.

The people believed that festival was started by the late King Jagat Jyoti Malla.

The story of serpents: That story inspired him so much that he recreates by cementing the Biska jatra. A cursed princess became a widow the next day after her marriage. The man who got married to her was found dead the next day early. In this environment a prince with a tantric power came and got a knot out with the princess. He probably knew about the curse.  For that reason he stood awake that night. And consequently he found something very suspicious about the princess. The two serpents steadily came out from her nostrils between a meanwhile, the prince sprightly cut them down into pieces with his sword, as soon as he saw them crawling. And this is how the curse was cured. Therefore, to celebrate this victory against those serpents, people start to celebrate Biska Jatra.

Besides this, people celebrate the jatra of Mahalaxmi, Mahakali, Bramayani, and Maheshwari during the festival.

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The main attraction of this festival is “lyo sin dyo”, also pronounced as “lingo”. It is a sky-high unbending pole, risen the last day of month Chaitra, and lain down in the next eve. This process lying the lingo down as well known as the Satru hanta Jatra, which means the festival of killing an enemy.

The festival is celebrating a common belief that whoever sees the lingo lying down to the earth, will see this enemy also falling down. This event falls on the first day of Nepali new year, celebrating Biska jatra.

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Day 01: 11 April 2022: Arrival Nepal - Elevation: 1350m

Arrival at Kathmandu international airport and transfer to Hotel, near Thamel, O/N Hotel with BB

Day 02: 12 April 2022: Sightseeing - Changunarayan and Bhaktapur city

Sightseeing in Changunarayan and Bhaktapur Durbar square, 12/15km, Back to Kathmandu in the same hotel, O/N with BB

Day 03: 13 April 2022: Sightseeing - Kathmandu valley

Pashupatinath temple and Boudhanath stupa, lunch, then we drive to Patan Durbar Square, Swayambhunath Temple, and back to the same hotel, with BB

Day 04: 14 April 2022: Join festival - explore and seeing the festival dance

Exploring the festival in Basantapur among crowed people with dances, and offering to the Kumari. Back to the same hotel, with BB

Day 05: 15 April 2022: rest in Kathmandu - walk in the streets in Thamel

If you wish to buy some souvenir you can purchase them in the market of Thamel; back to the Hotel to prepare your luggage, O/N with BB

Day 06: 16 April 2022: Final departure - Kathmandu International airport

We drop you in our private vehicle to the airport. From the hotel we have to leave 3 hours before, according to your flight schedule.

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Trip Facts

  • Trip Code:
    07
  • Destination:
    Nepal
  • Trip Grade:
    Easy
  • Max Elevation:
    1350m
  • Total Duration:
    06 days
  • Best Time:
    begin Spring, in April
  • Group Size:
    1-20 Pax

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