{"id":412,"date":"2011-11-17T16:23:27","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T11:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shikhartravels.wordpress.com\/?p=412"},"modified":"2011-11-17T16:23:27","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T11:53:27","slug":"our-festive-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shikhar.com\/blog\/our-festive-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Festive Tour&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Our Sonepur festival Tour(9<sup>th<\/sup> Nov to 11<sup>th<\/sup> Nov), was a great fun for the Japanese group. This year, the tour, was escorted by our experienced executive, Kailash Bisht, whose travelling experience and knowledge led the tour to be a great success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 The Sonepur Mela is the largest cattle fair in Asia. It is held every year on the day of \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153Karthik Poornima\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2, a full moon day which generally falls in the month of November, in Sonepur, near Patna, the capital city of Bihar. The Mela takes place on the confluence of river Ganga and Gandak .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 The group members, led by Kailash, reached Sonepur on the 9th of Nov. The next day (10<sup>th<\/sup> Nov.) went on the banks of river Gandak, witnessed thousands of pilgrims taking the holy bath, offering prayers, elephants given bath on the occasion. The Hari Hara Temple, was the main attraction for the thousand of devotees. At the fair, camels, buffaloes, sheep, dogs, pigs, monkeys, chimpanzees were the other common animals being kept for the sale. 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