Why not to Join Ganesh Chaturthi Festival 2010!
Festival activities:
This event encompasses celebrations of 11 days with the biggest spectacle taking place on the last day called Ananta Chaturdasi day. This year"s event is holding in Mumbai, from 11th September to 22nd September. Mumbai is one of the best places to celebrate any event. An incalculable number of devotees are taking India flightsto visit the temple to join in prayers and pay their respects to the God during this fair. The event commences with installation of huge elaborately crafted statutes of Ganesha in homes and podiums as around 10,000 statues of Lord Ganesh are displayed at various locations in the city. Especially constructed and beautifully decorated statues are paraded through the streets, accompanied by much singing and dancing, and then immersed in the ocean or other bodies of water. Prayers are offered during all the days by devotees. Both Locals and cheap India flights takers perform some special worships offerings of sweets, flowers, rice, coconut, jaggery and coins are made to the God.
Some Important facts:
Ganesh Chaturthi is celebrated every year in different Indian states including; Maharashtra, Goa, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. In Mumbai alone, more than 150,000 statues are immersed each year. The venue is converted into a colorful and crowded city at least one month before the actual event takes place as huge volumes of locals and cheap India flights takers come to the city in advance to join this religious event. Expect very crowded streets, filled with boisterous devotees, and lots of music, devotees also enjoys performances by DJs, fire dancers, stilt walkers, lasers, lights, and thousands of revelers. The final day is most important when the immersion of the statues in the ocean, or other bodies of water, and subsequent destruction take place. Those taking India flights from UK enjoys a lot during whole the festival that starts out from the Mahalaxmi Temple Compound in Breach Candy, central Mumbai, and ends at the seafront.