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Dipankha Yatra

Dipankha Yatra is the religious journey or procession of “Neel Thu” (Blue Horned Oxen). It is consider as one of the longest journey where the devotees are suppose to travel 60 to 62 km on foot, nearly traveling 25 to 30 hours. The journey covers visiting 141 temples and monasteries in the Kathmandu Valley. Dipankha Yatra is also one of the precious journey in which devotees are believed to gain dharma of one tola of gold in each foot-step. This means the devotees who joins the precession will get good deeds as he/she has earned 1 tola(11.664 gram) of gold on each foot-step.

It is a symbol of religious harmony in Nepal dating back to age of Legends of ‘Dipankar’, though its history can be found on records as old as 1902 B.S (1865 A.D) in the holy scripts of Golden Temple, one of the major tourist attractions in Lalitpur.

The day before this yatra, the devotees need to put a ‘Kisli’ ( a bowl full of wheat, areca nut and a coin in a mud pot) at Nagbahal, it’s like the kind of formal rites before going to yatra. And then next day the journey starts as early as 4 AM.

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