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Festival of the Month..
November 5, 2014
**Enjoy Italy Favourite coffee LAVAZZA Coffee @Shiva's Cafe Corner. * *Festival of the month BISKA JATRA April 9th -18th 2017 Biska Jatra is Bhaktapur’s greatest festival and goes on for nine days. The festivity starts off with a raucous tug-of-war at the city center between two neighborhoods trying to drag the triple-roofed chariot of Bhairavnath to their own side. On April 13, a ceremonial pole called yosin is erected on the city outskirts. The two strips of cloth unfurled from the top represent a pair of dead snakes in whose memory the festival has been installed. “Bi” in Nepalbhasa means s …Read More »