Muzaffarpur
The Shravan kanwar walks to Baba Garibnath, and Chaturbhuj Sthan is beside it.
North Bihar
Places around Muzaffarpur
- Baba Garibnath Temple: Devotees come to pour water on the Garibnath lingam and ask for their lives to be bettered; worship in...
- Chaturbhuj Sthan Mandir: Local devotees visit for regular worship at one of Muzaffarpur's older shrines
More to see and do
Litti chokha
The dish people mean when they say Bihari food.
Wheat dough balls filled with spiced sattu, baked over coals and dipped in ghee, eaten with chokha of roasted brinjal, potato and tomato.
Sattu sharbat in summer
What Bihar drinks against the heat: roasted gram, water, lemon and salt, sold from carts on every corner.
Sattu stirred into water with cumin, coriander, green chilli and black salt, salty or sweet.
Shahi litchi season
For five weeks each summer Muzaffarpur sells the litchi India knows it by, GI-registered in 2018.
The harvest runs from about mid May to about 20 June. Nearly fifty temporary litchi markets open across the district.
Sujani embroidery of Bhusura
Quilted stories in running stitch, made by the women of about fifteen villages around Bhusura; GI-registered.
Layers of old cloth stitched into quilts and hangings that tell stories of village life, originating in Bhusura in Gaighat block.
Lac bangles of Muzaffarpur
The lac bangles the district itself names as the town's craft.
Bangles of coloured lac, set with glass and stones, from the bangle lanes of Muzaffarpur.
Dahi chura on Makar Sankranti
The Makar Sankranti breakfast across Bihar: flattened rice, curd and jaggery, with tilkut after.
Chura, dahi and gur eaten together on the morning of Sankranti, with tilkut.
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