The people of Bikaner celebrate many festivals, the ones that declare a special mention are Gangaur, Desert Camel festival and the Kolayat celebrations. Bikaner, the peaceful desert country comes alive with color, hilarity, music, dance, folk performances and pleasure during festival celebrations that revive the craggy and rustic desertscape.
So come and be a part of chromatic Bikaner that sports bright glittering hues on an ochre sand base as you let yourself go with gay abandon at the festivals in Bikaner, Rajasthan, India.

Camel Festivals
The camel festival cheers up the rural camel country in January every year and creates the perfect podium for the people of Bikaner to flaunt their cultural customs, fantastic folk dances, folk music and enchanting tradition. The 2-days camel festival mesmerizes you into a delightful world of merry-go-rounds, caparisoned camels, jugglers, puppeteers, snake charmers, fortunetellers, fireworks and undying desert appeal.

Day one of the camel festival begins with a carnival of decorated camels in all their fineries. The colorful camel procession is followed by camel dance performances. Fireworks light up the sky at evening.

Day two of the camel festival sees an array of camel race events and other social performances.
 

Kolayat Festivals
Celebrated in November every year, the Kolayat festival is a relic of the living traditions of early India. The Kolayat festival is a joyful event of great religious significance for the Hindus. All the 52 Ghats on the banks of the Kolayat Lake are revive with colorful activity, religious prayer and festivities during the Kolayat festival. Offerings of sugar drops, sweetmeats and milk pudding are made at the Kolayat temple that houses a marble statue of the sage Kapil Muni.
The Deepmala ceremony lights up the Kolayat Lake at dusk when hundreds of oil lamps are lit and left to float on leaves over the placid waters of the Kolayat Lake.