Mata Tirtha Snan or Mother’s Day

On this day, each house bustles with activities and everyone, regardless of age, participates. There aren’t much religious ceremonies but the fact that it is a day for mothers, calls for celebrations for she is the one who keeps the family together through ups and downs in life.

Budha Jayanti

Lord Buddha’s birthday is celebrated at all Buddhist shrines, particularly Boudhnath & Swayambhunath

Bisket Jatra

Bhaktapur is the place to be for this exciting & rousing festival which lasts for a week & celebrates the slaying of two demon serpents. A frenetic tug of war at dusk determines who shall have the honors of dragging a huge chariot conveying Bhadrakali & Bhairav through the streets of the city. Spectacular masked dancing & the felling of a long pole, commemorating victory during the great battle of Mahabharata mark the beginning of the Nepalese New year.

Sithinakha or Kumar Khasthi

Jaisedewal, south of kathmandu Durbar square, will be thronged with people celebrating the birthday of kumar.Kumara has six heads because he was nursed by the karttikas—six women who, as stars, comprise the Pleiades. For this reason he is also called Karttikeya, “son of Karttikas.”

Ropain

Ropain (the 15th day of the third month of Nepali year) is also known as Asar Pandhra. This festival is related to the planting of rice paddy fields, and is celebrated all around Nepal by eating rice flakes and curd. The best spot to see and enjoy the farmers playing with water and mud within the Kathmandu Valley are in Harrisiddhi, Kirtipur, Chapagaon, Bungmati, Sanogaon and Bhaktapur. Farmers will be playing holi (festival of colours) but instead of using coloured powders they will be using mud or water mixed with mud. It will be nice to see them throwing mud at each other.
Asar Pandhra actually indicates the beginning of the monsoon in Nepal. Yes, it is certainly the best day for paddy planting and also known as national paddy day.
Ashare bhaka, a special traditional Nepali song sung on this day or while planting,

Gokarna Aunshi or Father’s Day

Celebrated by ritual bathing at the Gokarna Mahadev for those whose fathers have died in the past year. Living fathers are honored with gifts.

Tulsi Bijaropan

This women’s festival of fasting & purification involves planting the sacred tulsi plant, a close relatives of common basil.

Gai Jatra

An epic love of a king & queen is celebrated in this festival, which is more like a carnival. Families in which deaths have occurred in the previous year will send cows or children dressed as cows to frolic & sing in the Durbar squares of Kathmandu, Patan & Bhaktapur to assist their deceased’s entry into heaven.

Bhoto Jatra

Astrologers fix the exact time. The culmination of the several month long procession of the Rato(red) Machhendranath chariot since it set off from Pulchowk in April, this important Patan festival is designed to ensure a good monsoon for crops. The bejeweled waist coast or Bhoto, supposedly belonging to the serpent king, is displayed at Jawalakhel in the presence of the president. Once every 12 years the chariot is dragged painstakingly all the way to Bungmati.

IndraJatra

Probably the most spectacular of all valley festival. Torch-lit processions & dancing to honor Indra, the gods of rain, are held in this eight-day celebration which centers on the Kathmandu, Durbar Square. On the third day of the Kumari, or living Goddess (goddess in Human form) is paraded in a special chariot & worshipped by the king himself. Masks of Bhairav decorate the city & local beer pours from the mouths of these masks to refresh the local revelers.

Teej

This colorful women’s festival has groups of red sari-clad ladies singing in high spirits in the streets on their way to ritually bathe in the Bagmati river at Pashupatinath.

Dashain or Durga Puja

This 10-days festival is celebrated all over Nepal, honoring bountiful fertility & the conquest of evil. Normal life comes to a standstill as everyone attends to his religious & family duties. On Phulpati, the day of flowers, there is a procession to Hanuman Dhoka, on the eighth & ninth days there are massive numbers of ritual animal sacrifices, for every tool that is used during the year must be blessed. Shrines all over the country literally run with blood. On the final day the palace is opened for all who wish to line up to receive a Tika from the hands of the king or queen.

Haribodhani Ekadashi

This most auspicious Ekadashi ( the 11th day of each lunar fortnight, there are 24 in a year) welcomes Vishnu back from his long summer sleep. Join worshippers at Budhanilkantha where festivities culminate as fasting devotees conclude the pilgrimage to his temple of changu Narayan, Bisankhu Narayan, Sekh Narayan & Ichangu Narayan.

Tihar/ Dipawoli & Laxmi puja

The festival of lights is one of the great festival of all Hindu people. In this festival we worship the Goddess of wealth,Laxmi.
The festival of lights starts with honoring the crow, the dog & the cow. The fourth day coincides with Newari New Year. On the fourth & fifth evenings Laxmi, the goddess of wealth & prosperity, is enticed into the home by lights. Thousands of oil lamps & candles adorn doors, windows & balconies. Brothers are feted by their sisters on the last day & honored with elaborate Tikas and garlands.
The last day of tihar is ‘Bhai tika’, putting tika on your brothers by your sisters.  The main theme behind bhai tika is the sisters praying for their brother’s long life from  god of the underworld Yama Raj.

Yomari Punhi

The Newari rice festival is celebrated at panauti, where the family paddy store is blessed & rice cakes called yomari are prepared. Chath parba:- It is the worshipping days of surya (The Sun). It continues for three days in the southern plate of Nepal where crops production is major source.

Magh Shankranti

HOLI or Fagu Purnima

Basant Panchami

Shiva Ratri

Chaitra Dashain

an evil King of Lanka (Sri Lanka). It is believed that the Goddess Durga’s power had helped Ram to achieve his victory. So, the Goddess Durga, the source of power, is also worshipped on the occasion.Ritual offerings & sacrifices are made to Durga, exactly six months away from her great festival of Dashain.

GhodheJatra

Celebrated by horse races and gymnastics attended by the prsident, this horse festival has become a military pageant to draw crowds to the Tundhikhel.