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The 26th edition of the Pokhara Road Festival organized by the Restaurant and Bar Association (Rewan) Pokhara at Lakeside will be held from December 13 to 17. With the aim of promoting Pokhara as a destination on the occasion of English New Year, this festival is going to be held in the three kilometer area of Lakeside.
Rewan Pokhara has been organizing the festival every year with the slogan 'Let's eat on the streets, dance on the streets, have fun on the streets'.
In a press conference held in Pokhara on Monday, festival coordinator Vikas Bhattarai informed that the road festival will be held in the area from Basundhara Park to Chautara in Gaihra. According to him, the main attractions of the festival are endangered cultural programs of different ethnic groups, original costumes, tableau competition, national and international cuisine, and live concerts. In terms of sports, there will be boat race, waiter race, tug of war, meat and sausage eating competition.
awareness-raising street plays and dialogue programs focusing on Pokhara's tourism promotion, development, opportunities and challenges have also been organized. Coordinator Bhattarai said that local products, handicrafts, paintings, sculptures, agriculture, plants and other products of Pokhara Serofero will be put in the exhibition with priority. Chau Bahadur Gurung, cultural coordinator of the
festival, said that this time the endangered Krishna character dance of Lamjung and Bhojpuri dance will also be included. Birendra Sherchan, the publicity coordinator of the festival, said that the street festival has become a dynamic means of making economic activities run at the local level, earning foreign currency and creating jobs. "We estimate that 4 to 5 lakh domestic and foreign tourists will be present at the festival," he said, "especially Indian tourists come to Pokhara to celebrate the New Year." Before doing so, he recalled that many Nepali citizens also go abroad to celebrate the English New Year. "Foreign tourists used to leave Nepal as there were no attractive events," he said, "but the continuity of the past 25 years has created an environment where not only Nepalis but also foreigners celebrate the New Year in Pokhara." He said it happened.
