Khajuraho Dance festival

The land of fairs and festivals, India has innumerable festivals – it has religious and cultural festivals. Not a single month is with out festival in India. Either there is a religious or cultural festival always there to make people busy and happy. Yeah... here I am talking about another cultural festival of India, Khajuraho dance festival.

Khajuraho in Madhya Pradesh has made a distinctive place for itself in the world tourism map beacuse of its captivating temples and dance festival. The dance festival takes place every year in the month of February 25^th to Mach. 2^nd. This cultural festival marks the richness of the different classical dance style such as Kathak, Bharat Natyam, Kathakali, Odissi, Kuchipudi and Manipuri with excellent perfomances of some of the modern Indian dances which have also been included recently. This The back ground of the festival is an open air auditorium in front of Chitragupta Temple dedicated to God Sun and Vishwanatha Temple dedicated to lord Shiva.

The eminent and famous dancers of India are invited in the festival to perform the art. The artists are honored for their magnificent performances and these are really a cultural delight to the art lovers.

Dance lovers not only from India but also from other parts of the globe try to take part in this enchanting event. This cultural extravaganza is organized by the Madhya Pradesh Tourism Department and is promoted as one of the major cultural event in Khajuraho.

This dance festival also celebrates the glory of the artistic temples of Khajuraho. The main idea behind Khajuraho Dance Festival is to show the cultural heritage of Khajuraho relevant to the present society and preserving it for the coming generation.

Jaisalmer Desert Festival

Every year in the month of February the desert land of Jaisalmer becomes lively, vibrant and colourful by the desert festival of Jaisalmer. The back ground of the fair is the majestic Jaisalmer fort. This mega event is sponsored by the Rajasthan Tourism development Corporation. Every year during spring with the advent of full moon night the whole Rajasthan tie their turban for the colourful Desert festival of Jaisalmer. This event is a joyful celebration of the traditional performing art and craft of Rajasthan.

Celebration

A few days before the festival the artist, musician, dancers not only from Jaisalmer but also from other parts of India proceed towards the land of desert in colourful camel caravan. As the D- days dawns the yellow city, Jaisalmer becomes vibrant with colours, folk music, puppet show, enchanting dance and brilliantly hued costume. There are other entertaining activities like turban tying contest, Mr. Desert contest, camel races make the place exciting and interesting. The beating of drums can be heard from the every corner of Jaisalmer. Fireworks at night illuminate the sam sand dunes, and these are really not to be misses event.

There is music every where. There are variety of shops of craft, jewelry, scandals etc mind bowing Rajasthani products. Tourist around the globe come to visit this wonderful during the festival. For the artists it has become a prestigious event to participate in the desert festival. It is also a good platform for the new talents.

Rajasthan is one of the hot destinations in India and event like this really add spice to life. So if you are planning to visit Jaisalmer try to make it on during the desert festival – a totally different world.

In 2009 the fair in on 7^th -9^th February.