Jamnagar City Info

(12) Fairs & Festivals

* Holi

Holi is a festival of colors. Beforedays, it was celebrated by each and every Hindu but nowadays it becoming dull as authorities are not permiting to celebrate it on roads and public places.

* Navratri

The celebrations of Navratri include worshipping Goddess Amba and colorful ritual dancing by the devotees. The famous Garba Ras of the state is associated with the nine-night festival of Navratri. Both men and women congregate in public to perform this dance called Garba Ras. This is the worlds’ longest dancing festival.

* Janmashtami

Janmashtami is celebrated in a big way in Jamnagar on the twenty-third day of Shravan month of Hindu calander (August/September). Janmashtami is the birthday of Lord Krishna celebrated all over India, and Jamnagar being a town close to the kingdom of the deity, the festival carries a special meaning here. It is celebrated with special rituals and festivities, singing of folk hymns and colorful celebratory procession.

* Diwali

Diwali is a last day of the year as per Hindu calendar. Diwali is called the festival of lights as every person decorates his home/office with either by electric light or by diya, one type of vessle which is filled with oil and being lighted with cotton. Merchants perform Laxmi Pooja in which they pray the Goddess to bless and starts book-keeping new year account books by writing some religious writing before anything.

* Marine National Park - Pirotan Island

The Only MARINE NATIONAL PARK of its kind in India at Jamnagar Dist. Gujarat is situated almost 16 Nautical Miles (about 30 kms.) away in Gulf of Kachchh near Jamnagar. The ever-depleting mangrove population of this park gives rise to some of the richest marine life off mainland India. The park is spread over an area of 42 islands with an area of 150 sq.kms. and coastal zone of 309 sq.kms., totalling 458 sq.kms. of extremely rich area of marine biodiversity.

Here one can find plants that look like animals and animals that look like plants. Turtles, shrimp, sponge, eels, and sea urchin lurk among corals. Here corals create fantasies in stone and are the master builders of the Park. Their limestone fortresses those found near the Pirotan Islands and the rich moist deciduous forests like those found in the dense forests of the Danes. One of the most threatened birds, the great Indian bustard finds a refuge in certain pockets of protected areas.