Bhaktapur is the place to be for this exciting & rousing festival which lasts for a week & celebrates the slaying of two demon serpents. A frenetic tug of war at dusk determines who shall have the honors of dragging a huge chariot conveying Bhadrakali & Bhairav through the streets of the city. Spectacular masked dancing & the felling of a long pole, commemorating victory during the great battle of Mahabharata mark the beginning of the Nepalese New year.