Mata Tirtha Aunshi, Mother's day in Nepal,Aamako Mukh herne,Festival of Mothers day

Notice for Participation in Travel Trade Fairs 2009

All tourism companies registered with Government of Nepal are encouraged to apply and participate. Application form for participation is available with Nepal Tourism Board. (The forms can be received on e-mail or downloaded from our website)

Duly filled up forms should be submitted to Accounts Unit, Corporate Services Department, NTB, along with full participation fees before the deadline. Participation shall be allowed on first come - first served basis.

* Rs. 160,000.00 is for individual table. Cost for staying in common area will be Rs.70, 000.00 (max. four first time participating companies and other conditions apply)

Note: Travel, hotel and visa arrangements will have to be made by the participants themselves.

Fair/Mart	Date	Participation Fee (Nrs)	Deadline for Application	No. of Companies	Contact
Vakantiebeurs, Utrecht, The Netherlands	14 – 18 January 2009	80,000/-	21 November,08	Four	This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
Nordic Travel Fair ( MATKA ), Helsinki, Finland	15-18 January 2009	65,000/-	21 November,08	Three	This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
CMT- Stuttgart, Germany	17-25 January 2009		21 November,08	Five	Nepal German Chamber of Commerce & Industries This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
FITUR, Madrid, Spain	Jan. 28- Feb. 1, 2009	75,000/-	21 November, 08	Seventeen	Nepal Association of Tour & Travel Agents This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
BIT , Milan , Italy	19-22 February 2009	80,000/-	28 November, 08	Six	Trekking Agents Association of Nepal ( TAAN) This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
Adventure Travel & Backpackers Expo., Melbourne , Australia	Melbourne ( 21-22 Feb. '09 )	65,000/-	28 November, 08	Four	This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
Tour Operators' Meet & Press Conference in Melbourne & Sydney, Australia	Melbourne- 19 Feb. '09 Sydney- 24 Feb. '09	15, 000/-	28 November, 08	Four	This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
*ITB-Berlin, Germany	11-15 March 2009	160,000/-	28 November, 08	Fifteen	This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
Europe Sales Mission, Prague, Vienna & Budapest	16-21 March 2009	60,000/-	28 November, 08	Six	This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
MITT- Moscow, Russia	18-21 March 2009	85,000/-	28 November, 08	Four	This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
Sales Mission in Beijing, Shanghai, Guanzhau, China	30 March-7 April '09	60,000/-	28 November, 08	Four	This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Ilam district promoting tea tourism in Nepal

Even as travel trade entrepreneurs are exploring new avenues to cater to tourists, locals in Ilam have started to promote tea tourism to attract more visitors to the district. Locals aggressively engaged in implementing the concept are hopeful that it (tea tourism) would enable visitors to enjoy the serenity and vibrancy of tea estates and also help planters and producers promote their products and establish business networks.

Interestingly, one of the biggest supporters in this project is Thomas Holes, a German national who has been working to foster organic tea production in Nepal and help the produce gain access to the international market.
“It offers a huge potential,” said Holes, who is in Ilam for the second time this year. And this time he has even brought 12 of his friends here who he says have expressed immense satisfaction. Traveling around the tea estates, interacting with workers and spending nights in farmers’ cottages are exciting experiences for us, he said.

Tea tourism is not a new concept in the region though. Darjeeling, the town on the other side of the border, has gained popularity from the tea tourism the government of India promoted in the past.
In Nepal the concept was imported and is being pushed by Gorkha Tea Estate. “Increased interest of overseas buyers, visitors and researchers and inflow of a substantial number of study teams to Ilam has also raised the importance of tea tourism,” said Uday Chapagain, a tea producer.
He told the Post that tourists who visited the place in the past had invariably expressed their highest delight and pleasure after living with planters, interacting with locals and going around the place.
Their responses had triggered in his mind the idea of tea tourism and its potential. Chapagain has built a dozen cottages and developed other necessary infrastructure and facilities to cater to visitors’ needs and lure them to extend their stay in Ilam.
“If this concept gains popularity, each farmer will be directly able to enjoy a sound financial return from tourism,” said he.
A substantial number of visitors from the US, Japan, Sri Lanka, China and Switzerland, among others, have been frequenting Ilam and other tea producing districts in recent years to study tea and understand its production.
“Under tea tourism, we have made arrangements whereby visitors can stay at farmers’ homes as paying guests,” said Dorje Lama of Fikkal.
He elaborated that dozens of farmers of Sundarpani who are associated to Gorkha Tea Estate are already enjoying the benefits and many more are preparing to join in.

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Mata Tirtha Aunshi falls in the month of Baishak dark fortnight (April). This festival falls in the time of dard moon’s time; so its called Mata Tirtha Aunshi. “Mata” means mother and “Tirtha” means pilgrimage; so in this way it’s called “Mata Tirtha Aunshi”. This festival is observed in the commemoration and respect of the mother. So its mother’s reading day as well. Devotees worship their living mother at their home itself and the persons whose mothers have been passed away; they go to the Mata Tirtha Pilgrimage; which is located towards the valley’s eastern side at Mata Tirtha Village development committee’s periphery.

People bow their head on their mother’s feet and worship her providing with delicious foods; nice clothes; and some monetary donations as per their caliber to get good blessings from her. Hindu mythology believes that parents are our like the God; and if we appease them we get very successful life. That’s why people worship their mother in a very soaring way on this day.

A very grand spectacular religious fair takes place at Mata Tirtha Pilgrimage on this day. Thousands of devotees flock there in the high reverence of their deceased mothers. After the holy bath and worship; they donate some subsidiary items with money to the Bharaman priest staying; citing religious booklets there. Also they subscribe subsidiary items and money to the poor and needy people as well. Scripture believes that if some one donates on this day, it reaches automatically to their heavenly resided mother’s place and they will definitely be blessed for happy life from her. That’s why people seem thronging hugely in this pilgrimage on this day.

The scripture delineates that there’s no other god greater than our parents. Our mother kept us ten months inside her fetus with severe pain; and she bore a very hard agony to give us birth. She fed us her breast’s milk and bred us when we were helpless and, not able to earn anything for our livelihood. By her tender, kind and gentle care, we are grown and got this golden opportunity to look this wonderful world. So the scripture guides that we are very much indebted to our mother and her debt is un-payable. So it’s said that if someone afflicts his mother and puts her in distress, he will definitely fall in disaster always in his life by her curse. So we should always look after our mother when she suffers from any king of miseries. “Janani Janmabhumishya Swargadapi Gariyashi” means mother and the motherland place is celestial than the heaven too. Truly too, we can’t get the affection like our mother’s and the amicable ambience like our native place’s any where in the word. So this day illustrates us to pay a very high respect to our mother for our happy life. Also someone who have hated their mothers in the time of her living and received a very distressed life; they also expiate and come to worship in this pilgrimage with humble apologies from her. By his expirations, all of the vices run away from him; then definitely legend regarding to this pilgrimage.

There is a very interesting legend regarding to this pilgrimage. In ancient time Lord Krishna’s mother Devaki walked out her house for sight-seeing. She visited manyplaces and delayed a lot to return back at her house. Lord Krishna became very unhappy because of his mother’s tedious long time’s disappearance. So he went out in search of his mother to many palces’ but he couldn’t find anywhere. Finally when he reached at “Mata Tirtha Kunda”; he was happened to see his mother; taking bath there in the spouts of that pond. Lord Krishna became very much happy to find her there and narrated all of his tragedies in the absence of his mother. Mother Devaki said to lord Krishna that “oh! Son Krishna let then, this place be the pious rendezvous of children to meet their departed mothers”. So legends believe that since then; this place had become a noted holy pilgrimage to see back; a devotees’ deceased mother. Also legend believes that; a long time back; a devotee saw his mother’s image inside the pond and he happened to die falling there down. So still there is a small pond fenced by the iron rods in the place even on this present day as well. After the worship the pilgrimage enjoy there singing and dancing throughout the day in the festive mood.

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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 19 February 2008 )