Kathmandu: Festivities have returned to Nepal after the COVID-19 pandemic third wave, as one of the biggest chariot festivals celebrated in Kathmandu valley–Seto Macchindranath Jatra started on Saturday.
In the three-day-long chariot procession, honouring the god of rain is also known as ‘Jana Baha Dyah Jatra’, a skyscraping chariot of Seto Machindranath is taken from one place to another. Each day when the chariot reaches its terminus, a group of soldiers fires their rifles into the air.
Hundreds of devotees flocked to Tindhara Pathsalain Durbarmarg where the chariot was being built for the procession last week. In view of the festival, restrictions availing to COVID-19 have been lifted by the local authorities.