The many colours of Jyaa Punhi

The annual festival fills Panauti’s streets with devotion, music and processions honouring the town’s guardian deities.

Jyaa Punhi (the full moon of the month of Jestha, May-June), also Palanti Punhi, is celebrated with much commotion in Panauti, the small historic Newa city located at the junction of Punyamati and Rosi rivers, in the Banepa Valley.