Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
March
The last month of the travel season, March is full-on hot in most of the country. Wild-
life is easier to spot as animals come out to find water.
Holi
More widely celebrated in the North but still embraced by many southerners, Holi is an ec-
static festival; Hindus celebrate the beginning of spring according to the lunar calendar, in
February or March, by throwing coloured water and
gulal
(powder) at anyone within range.
Bonfires the night before symbolise the demise of demoness Holika.
Rama's Birthday
During Ramanavami, which lasts anywhere from one to nine days, Hindus celebrate
Rama's birth with processions, music, fasting and feasting, enactments of scenes from the
Ramayana and, at some temples, ceremonial weddings of Rama and Sita idols.
