The Seventh Lumbini Festival wrapped up in Bhairahawa on Sunday, drawing 120,000 visitors over 18 days. According to main organizing committee coordinator Sachin Rocca, the event recorded transactions totaling Rs 120 million. The festival featured 300 stalls and showcased Nepal’s first exhibition of a mermaid and a fish tunnel brought from Vietnam. Lumbini Province ministers Dhanendra Karki and Santosh Kumar Pandey attended the closing ceremony and expressed confidence that such events stimulate local production, trade, tourism, and the broader economy.
