Float Festival
January
Madurai, Tamil Nadu
Renowned as the ‘City of Festivals,’ the ancient town of Madurai celebrates the pulsating Float Festival on the full moon night in the Tamilian month of Thai. A grand procession begins at the Meenakshi Temple as enormous ornamental effigies of Goddess Meenakshi and her consort (incarnations of Goddess Parvati and Lord Shiva), are paraded through the streets on iconic floats done up with luxuriant blossoms and shimmering diyas.