When I think of festivals and celebrations that I have been to, I think of Carnival in Rio, Nottinghill Carnival in London and Ganesh Chaturthi in Mumbai. But today, I’m going to share the most local festival I have been too, and probably the most local one I will ever go to! It was a Women’s Festival in our teeny tiny village in Nepal.
One morning, when we woke up, our host family told us that that evening we would be celebrating the women’s festival at their house. We didn’t know what to expect, but we were looking forward to it. After the sunset, lots of women from the village, all dressed beautifully in red, arrived to the garden. There were also children with instruments and a few of the men from the village too. The evening was made up of dancing, music and laughter and it was one of those moments that I cherish from my time in Nepal. All of the women encouraged us to dance and it was wonderfully happy.
Which favourite festival and celebration memories do you have?
Marcella xx
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The Travel Tuesday post that I am highlighting from last week was written by Estrella from Estrella Explores, all about her time in Belém 🙂
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This looks so lovely. I think those smaller festivals/get togethers can end up being some of the most memorable. 🙂
Definitely! Especially because it’s not something that you know about before, or have heard anything about. So special! 🙂
This looks like such an intimate and local festival! Those really are the best kind! It looks like an absolutely amazing experience!
Hey Lauren! It was really great, and a lovely surprise to end the day with 🙂
Wow what an amazing experience!
It really was, Jessi! One I won’t forget 🙂
What a great way to feel like a real member of the community! Fabulous. Also, looks like you had fun 🙂
So true! It was so local, the most local you can get 😉
Wow, this is great! What an amazing experience! Everyone is looking like they are having the time of their lives.
It was such a happy buzz!
That is just awesome! Celebrating women is always an amazing thing.
Isn’t it just?! It was so great 🙂
It’s such an amazing experience to be included in something so intimate, and something that most travelers won’t get to see! I don’t think I’ve been to anything like this, but it’s always so special when a local invites you to do something!
It really makes you feel happy, especially when they wanted us to join in with the dancing 🙂
How surprising, but how lucky of you to be privy to such a special celebration. I love how they’re all dressed in red.
It was like a sea of beautiful red 🙂
Oh wow! I can only imagine the energy that was in the air for the celebration! What a wonderful way to celebrate women with music and dance. I think I might like this smaller festival approach because it seems like it was a much more intimate experience.
It was definitely so intimate, and so different from the other festivals I have been to!
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Aww….Thanks! I’ve done a couple of these recently, but will keep the questions for the future 😀
What a great festival! I’d love to go.
It was fabulous! 🙂
Sounds like such a unique experience! I’d love to partake in a festival that local!
It was really great 🙂 A brilliant experience!
That sounds like an amazing celebration of the women! I think sometimes small events like this make much more of a lasting impression that large extravaganzas that ultimately become very touristic and lose their authenticity.
PS. Thank you soooo much for highlighting my blog post from the other week! I’ve been taking a bit of a blogging break (reading them and writing posts on my own blog) so I’ve just gotten around to seeing this now.
Couldn’t agree more, it was really special 🙂 Yay! Loved your post, and actually thought of it when I had a Portuguese cream tart for part of my lunch today, hehe.
Aw such a lovely memory!! Wow that must be so cool – love the idea of those festivities and love all the red dresses! 🙂
I think it’s a memory I’ll always cherish – it was such a special evening 🙂