CALENDAR OF FESTIVALS, EVENTS & ACTIVITIES VNY'1998 (All the Year Round)

Calendar of Festivals, Events & Activities Through out the Year
DATE	EVENTS	PLACE	DESCRIPTION	ORGANISATION/CONT.ADD	REMARKS
All the Year Round	Clean up Campaigns	Khumbu Reigion	Cleaning of all the Base Camps and Trekking Routes of Khumbu Reigion	Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee
	Nagarkot Week	Nagarkot, KTM	Week long cultural activities exhibiting crafts shows organising musical & traditional games.		Date to be confirmed
	Jewelry exhibition	KTM		Nepal Handicrafts Asso.	Date to be confirmed
	Thanka Exhibition	KTM	Word famous indeginous, traditional scroll painting made out of vegetable dyes and gold powder.		Date to be confirmed
	Deliberation & Dscourses of Lectures & Research Activities on Ayurveda	Tridevi Marga, KTM	Ayurveda Medicinal Plants. Demonstration of Yoga	Ayurveda Health Home & Research Centre	Throughout the year
	Ayurveda & Yoga Clinical & Health Promotive Services	Tridevi Marga, KTM	Ayurveda consultation & Therapy Services . Yoga Training & Therapy Services	Ayurveda Health Home & Research Centre	Throughout the year
	Marriage Festival	Throughout the country	Elaborated marriage ceremonies alongwith colourful processions and traditional musical bands are performed in special sacred months of Jan, Feb, Mar, April and May.		Date to be confirmed
	Contemporary Art Painting	KTM / Pokhara		By Artists Asso. of Nepal	Date to be confirmed
	Carpet Exhibition	KTM / Pokhara			Date to be confirmed
	Release of VNY'98 Commemorative coins & medals.				Date to be confirmed
	Release of special Postal Stamps				Date to be confirmed
	Moni - Rimdo Festival	Phaplu, Lukla,Namche & Tengboche	Elaborated festival of Lama - Buddhism perfomed with masked dance & other colourful activities twice a year.		Date to be confirmed
	Restaurant's Waiters Race	Durbar Marga, KTM	Watiers of the various restaurants will compete a race by carrying tea-pots, water -glass on the tray.	REBAN	Date to be confirmed
	Rato Machendranath Jatra & Bhoto Jatra	Patan	Amonth long Buddhist festival celebrated by pulling two chariots of Bunga Deo & Chakupa Deo. At the last day of festival the religious celebration will be completed by showing Bhoto - a bejewal vest of the King of Serpent		Date to be confirmed
	Dakshinkali Sacrificing Rites	Dakshinkali Temple / KTM	On every Tuesdays & Saturdays devotees make sacrifices of goats & chickens.		Throughout the year.
	Annapurna Marathon	Annapurna Area		ACAP	Date to be confirmed
	Eco Training	,,		,,	,,
	Carpets & Handicrafts Exibition	KTM		CAAN	,,

	Kumbheswore Mela	Fair in Patan	Fair takes place near Bagalamukhi temple in Patan. Crowds of devotees seen in line to worship Lord Shiva, known by the name of Kumbheswore.		Date to be confirmed
	Gokarna Mela	Gokarna / Ktm	Fair in Gokarna / Ktm. Worship of Lord Gokarna by Hindus.		Date to be confirmed
	International Cycling Championship	KTM		Sports Dev.Nepal	Date to be confirmed
	Annapurna Base Camp Cleaning	Annapurna Area		ACAP	Date to be confirmed
	Exploring Village life	Annapurna Area		ACAP	Date to be confirmed
	Nepali Food Promotion	KTM	Promotion of food preparation & display of all the dialects & communities of Nepal	Chefs Association of Nepal	Date to be confirmed
	VNY'98 Special Issue of Poetry Magazine NAVA KAVITA Quarterly	KTM	Poems on Nepal in English by eminent world poets	Nava Kavita Qrtly Publication,Kath.	Date to be confirmed
	PATA/NICA-MICE Motivation Conference	KTM		NICA	Date to be confirmed
	Traditional & Contemporary Fashion shows	KTM	Display of ethnic cultures & traditional materials of Nepal.	Images	Date to be confirmed
	Blood drinking ceremony (Twice a year, in spring and then in monsson)	Mustang	Entails drinking of yak's blood. The blood vein of yak is punctured by a sharp needle like appliance to draw out blood. From one yak 30-40 glasses of blood is extracted. The vein pore is filled with yak's dung. People believe it provides energy and cures		Date to be confirmed
			them of gastric ailment.
	World Congress ( Complementary Medicines)	KTM	Participate 1000	The open International University for Complementary Medicine. Voted to Host.	Date to be confirmed
	Inst. of Light & Sound	Bhaktapur Durbar Square	Depicting the origin of holy river Bagmati & historical background of Bhaktapur City		Date to be confirmed
	Thomas Cook Day	Patan	Free guide service	TURGAN	Date to be confirmed
	Federation of Asia & Pacific Cargo Meeting	KTM		Cargo Agents Association	Date to be confirmed
	South Asia Travel Tourism Exhibition SATTE	KTM		NICA	Date to be confirmed
	Food Festival	KTM	Various restuarants exhibit traditional Nepalese & other culinary arts.	REBAN	Date to be confirmed
	Mountaineers Memorial Day	KTM	Pasang Lhamu memorial activities to be observed		Date to be confirmed
	Community plantation	Annapurna Area		ACAP	Date to be confirmed
	Bhimsen -Jatra	Patan, KTM, Bhaktapur, Dolakha & Makawanpur	A religious procession goes round the main-routes of the locality. Feast follows.		Date to be confirmed
	The Great Himalayan One Hundred KM Run.	Pokhara	Off-road International Marathon in mountains	100 Km. Run organising committee.	Date to be confirmed
	Pokhara - Baglung Ultra -Distance Race Competition	Pokhara	International Ultra-Distance Run Competition	Organising committee	Date to be confirmed
	Jitiya Pawani	Chitwan & Other Tharu inhibited areas of Terai	This festival of Tharu women is similar to Hindu women's Teej. The women keep fasting & pray for peace & prosperity.	Tharu Women	Date to be confirmed
	Balachaturdashi	All over the Kingdom.	Devotees say 100 various kinds of seeds on the hillook near Pashupati-nath's tempel. Keep awake the whole night and pray for the comfort and peace of eternal souls. People eat curd and beaten rice.	All Hindus	Date to be confirmed
	Bibahapanchami	Fair in Janakpur	Observed as a festival in Janakpur. It is a wedding day of Lord Rama with Goddess Sita.		Date to be confirmed