Holi

So let me introduce you to one of the most fun holidays I’ve ever experienced: Near the beginning of March, children and adults alike gather and arm themselves with handfuls of brightly colored powdered dye, buckets of water, and squirt guns and ballons of colored water. While people typically starts the day wearing all white, within a few minutes there is hardly a person that can be found that is not muli-colored!

It is also a cause for much revelry—the locals indulge in drinking and a "special" drink called Bhang. But mostly it is a celebration of spring and of the coming of warmer weather. People of all ages act like children in a water fight, and there are many smiles and laughs. Even the local animals were not spared, the dogs, sheep and cattle (I suppose you could call one a Holi cow!) could be seen with dye in their fur for days.