Pune and Mumbai the Great Places to Celebrate Ganesh Chaturthi

 

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Ganesh Chaturthi, also known as Vinayaka Chaturthi, is a popular Hindu festival celebrated in honour of the god Ganesha. It falls on the fourth day of the Hindu month Bhadrapada, generally in August or September. This time this festival will begin on 31st August.

Ganesh Chaturthi festival is celebrated throughout India with great devotion. The festival is celebrated by families at home, by people at their places of work and also in public. The public festivity involves installing complexion images of Ganesha in public pandals and group deification. The seven to ten days long festival ends with the ‘ Ganesh Visarjan ’ where the icons are immersed in the water; it's done as a procession with millions of people accompanying the hero along with music and dance. Travelers from across the globe come to India to witness the holy fests of Ganesh Chaturthi as part of India tour packages and Best wishes from Pawar Travels to all travelers.

Then are some places to visit to celebrate an amazing and memorable Ganesh Chaturthi festival.

 Pune

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Pune is known to be the artistic capital of Maharashtra and hosts one of the best Ganesh Chaturthi festivals in India. Though Mumbai is enough darned notorious for their ten days Ganesh Chaturthi festivals, Pune isn’t too far before. Ganesh deification is believed to have come wide in Pune during the reign of the Peshwas, who considered the elephant- headed god as their patron deity. Moment this jubilee is the most various and happy event in the religious, social and artistic life of Pune which has its own tradition of Ganesh Festival. The festival goes for ten days – starts with the installation of icons of Lord Ganesha on the first day to absorption of the Lord’s icons on the tenth day.

Kasba Ganpati, Tambdi Jogeshwari Ganpati, Guruji Talim, Tulsi Baug Ganpati and the Kesariwada Ganpati are the top 5 Ganesh icons in Pune. This is the order in which these icons are immersed on the last day. Piecemeal from these, another well- known mandal is the Dagdusheth Halwai Ganpati that creates a replica of the numerous popular monuments and tabernacles of India. The fests in Pune are done traditionally and they try their stylish to insure that no citizen is disturbed in these fests.

Pune festival is also held during Ganesh Chaturthi and is substantially emphasized on the festivity of art and culture, song and dance, custom and tradition. Classical dance, music recitals, film, drama festival, motor vehicle rallies and traditional sports are held as a part of the festival. Guests can witness these grand gleeful fests as part of Pune Tour Packages with car rental Pune.

Mumbai

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Ganesh Chaturthi, the birth anniversary of Lord Ganesha, is one of the festivals which the people of Mumbai celebrate with great zeal and enthusiasm. Lord Ganesh is regarded as the patron deity of Maharashtra and over 6000 icons are commissioned in Mumbai every time. It's celebrated each over India, but the maximum majesty is witnessed in Mumbai and across Maharashtra. Mumbai is one of the high places to visit as part of Maharashtra Tour Packages. The great Maratha sovereign Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj promoted the festival Ganesh Chaturthi which was depleting again by freedom fighter Lokmanya Tilak.

Colourfully decorated icons of Lord Ganesha are installed both at homes and in Sarvajanik Ganesh Pandals. Lalbaugcha Raja, Mumbaicha Raja, Siddivinayak Temple and KhetwadiGanraj are the celebrated Ganesh Pandals in Mumbai. Ganesh Chaturthi lasts from seven-ten days in Maharashtra. On the first day of the festival, the hero of Lord Ganesh is placed on a stage that symbolizes a throne and is worshipped. The festival ends with the ‘Ganesh Visarjan’ where the icons are immersed in the water. The most prominent of absorption occurs on Chowpatti Beach. A massive crowd assembles then to proof the event. The processions for Visarjan begin beforehand in the morning and reachmid-night by the time the final ritual is performed.

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