Simaria
Kalpvas on the Ganga every Kartik, and Jaimangla Garh out in the Kabar wetland.
North Bihar
Places around Simaria
- Simaria Ghat: For Ganga Snaana, and above all for the month-long Kalpavas, when devotees from across Mithila camp on...
- Jaimangla Garh Temple: It is counted among the 51 Shakti Peethas of India, reached across the lake
More to see and do
Thekua, the Chhath prasad
The moulded wheat-and-jaggery biscuit every Bihari home fries for Chhath.
Whole wheat, ghee and jaggery pressed in a wooden saancha and fried; offered to the sun at Chhath and shared after.
Yatras through Simaria
- Shakti Yatra: Devi shrines on hills and in villages, including the oldest working temple in India
- Sun Temple Yatra: The shrines behind Chhath, Bihar's own festival
Experiences
- Chhath on the ghats: Bihar's own festival, and the largest thing that happens here
- Kalpvas at Simaria: A month living in a tent on the river, eating once a day
- Birds at Kabar Taal: Bihar's Ramsar wetland, and a temple on an island in the middle of it
Tirtham can arrange here
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