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🇧🇹 Bhutan and 4 moreLosarལོ་གསར་ The Tibetan Buddhist New Year festival of renewal, offerings, and family feastsSeasonal · Feasts and festival meals

🇮🇳 Varanasi, India and 1 moreChhath Pujaछठ पूजा A four-day Hindu festival honouring the sun and Chhathi Maiya along riverbanksSpiritual · Fasting and breaking the fast

🇮🇳 Madurai, IndiaGoluபொம்மை கொலு An autumn festival display of stepped dolls and figurines in South Indian homesFestival · Sweets given and shared

🇦🇫 Mazar-i-Sharif, AfghanistanNowruzنوروز The Afghan spring new year, celebrated with picnics, wheat pudding and dried fruit.Seasonal · Feasts and festival meals 🇧🇹 Punakha, BhutanTraditional Day of OfferingBuelwa Phuewi Nyim A Bhutanese New Year marked by offerings to Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal and family feasts.Festival · Breakfast

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Golu: Ksiva21, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Losar: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Chhath Puja: Steffen Gauger, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Nowruz: Peretz Partensky, CC BY-SA 2.0, source

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