We tore ourselves away from Udaipur yesterday, after extending our stay there twice, from 2 nights to 10! We stayed longer so we could be there for the first two nights of the Gangour Festival.
Groups of women, dressed in their finest saris, walk through the streets of town to the shore of the lake. In each group, women carry beautiful decorated statues of gods and goddesses on top of their heads. Each group sets down their statues on the ghat (steps leading down to the water), and a ritual is performed. It includes singing, touching the feet of the statues, dipping roses in little pots of water and circling the flowers beneath the statues' noses. Then the statues are put back up on women's heads and carried away again.
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