Kathmandu: Yomari Punhi Festival

After touring the temple and museum around Durbar Square, we got to see the Yomari Punhi festival in progress—groups of people all dressed up, parading toward the square, banging drums and cymbals (quite the racket!), and happy smiles all around.

The festival marks the end of the rice harvesting season and people make yomaris, offering them to Goddess Annapurna or Mother Earth, Goddess Laxmi or Lord Kumar, Lord Ganesh and Lord Kuber with the belief that it will bring wealth, health and prosperity.

Yomari—which loosely translates to bread loved by all—are cone/fig shaped rice dough dumplings filled with sugar/molasses and sesame paste. Small ones are made and sold throughout the city on this day.

A flatbed truck mid-procession was carrying a big white blob about the size of a crate of oranges got a lot of attention—lots of people taking photos and making worship gestures.
Turns out that was a giant yomari!

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