Best time to visit India

India's exuberant spring festival transforms streets and plazas into a riot of color as people chase each other with fistfuls of vibrant gulal powder and water-filled balloons. Originating as a harvest celebration, Holi is now a nationwide festival of joy, forgiveness, and the victory of good over evil.

India's most beloved holiday, the Festival of Lights, fills the country with millions of clay diyas, colorful fireworks, and elaborate rangoli designs for five days in October or November. Families exchange sweets, worship Lakshmi the goddess of prosperity, and illuminate their homes in a nationwide celebration of the triumph of light over darkness.

The Pushkar Camel Fair is one of the world's largest camel fairs, drawing over 200,000 visitors to the sacred desert town of Pushkar in Rajasthan each November for trading, camel races, and cultural competitions. The five-day fair coincides with the Kartik Purnima full moon, making it both a commercial spectacle and a deeply religious pilgrimage.