Joyous celebrations of Holi welcome spring. Holi Festival is all about having fun, celebrating with friends and family. Holi is incomplete without colour, delicious food and Holi songs.

Applying colors and splashing water is the real essence of this festival. The colors symbolize purity, love, and fertility. The hazardous Holi products and dry chemical colors lead to environmental degradation. Apart from harming your skin, hair, and eyes, the chemical colors are hazardous for nature.

This year pledge to protect society and environment by celebrating an eco-friendly Holi. You can have unlimited fun by adopting some simple tips.

Play with Homemade Colors

Sandalwood, turmeric, and henna are some of the ingredients available in your kitchen that can be used for homemade colors. These products are amazing for skin also add jasmine, marigold, beetroot, and roses to up the beauty quotient.

Organic colors are also available in the market, add them to your Holi Shopping list just in case you don't have the time to prepare colors. These are easily washable, gentle on skin, and smell great. Flower petals and saffron can be used to make amazing aromatic colors.

Holika Dahan by Lighting Diyas

Burning of Holika marks the triumph of good over evil. On the eve of Holi, people collect broken furniture, wood etc to burn Holika. This bonfire signifies the victory of good over evil and is a tradition in the north India. The pyre is lit after sunset with people singing and dancing around it.

The Bonfire apart from wasting wood, also leads to pollution. Many trees can be saved by opting for eco-friendly means such as lighting diyas.

Dry Holi – Pledge to Preserve Water

Celebrating a complete dry Holi may not be possible but decide beforehand the amount of water you want to use and save water for a better purpose. Many cities across the nation are facing water scarcity, water is precious and wasted during Holi. You can easily choose to celebrate a dry Holi with organic colors.

Community Celebrations – Include everyone in your Holi Part

Celebrating Holi at a designated place keeps your house clean and further reduces the wastage of water. It prevents from going overboard with the spending by proper planning the event. Also, the true spirit of this social festival can only be witnessed at such places. Community gathering and exchange of gifts completes the festival of colors with immense joy and fervor.

Recyclable Items – Save Money and Conserve Nature

The use of recyclable things is a better option in comparison to one-time use items. The pichkaris and water guns can easily be preserved for next year. Recycling diminishes the negative impact on the environment by reducing the demand for raw materials.

Be Safe- Avoid the Use of Balloons

Water balloons that produce a chance of injury can be shed to make the festival safe. These items are made of plastic that is most dangerous for the environment. Limiting the use of plastic is the primary focus for preserving the nature.

Go Natural – Celebrate the Festival with Flowers

Flowers are the most adorable way to celebrate Holi. The festival also signifies love, making it adequate to celebrate with flowers. Most importantly take proper care to throw them in the dustbin after you are done with the celebrations.

Tilak Holi – The Age Old Practice

It is the simplest way of celebrating the festival, in fact Tilak Holi is an age old custom followed to greet the elderly in the family. In the morning of the festival, younger members touch the feet of elders who in response put a tilak on their forehead.

Spread Awareness

Not only play an eco-friendly Holi yourself, but encourage your friends to follow such safe practices as well. The more people join the initiative better it is for the nature.

Special Delicacies to Complete the Celebration

Holi celebration demands Best Traditional Holi Foods and the list for Holi delicacies in India is a never-ending. You have Gujiyas, Malpuas, and thandai which are must haves of the festival.

These mouth-watering foods add colors to your eco-friendly celebration. A 20-minute walk in the morning will be fine to overcome the guilt of breaking your diet plan.

Make Sure You Clean After Holi

This Holi takes responsibility and after the fun session is over gather everyone around you to clean the mess you have created. You can also join any NGO or local organizations who conduct cleaning drives at beaches, neighbourhoods, or just along the streets.

Avoid Using Irrelevant Products

This Holi avoid using anything that can be carful to others just in the name of fun. Don’t use harmful products like oil paints, petrol, mud and other chemical-based product during Holi celebration. These products can cause serious health hazards and are irrelevant to the festival theme.

Make the festival of colors more special by following safety tips and take the pledge to save the nature by going eco-friendly. FreeKaaMaal wishes you a colorful and safe Holi. Get Holi online deals of 500+ e-retailers from our offers page to make your celebrations grand.

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Holi is the festival of triumphing good over evil and painting the town with all the possible colors available . It is the festival that brings our hearts closer to our loved ones , meeting and greeting, forgiving and thanking . It is that time of the year when colours are in the air and we all must have already started making our plans to how to celebrate it .

If you’re bored of smearing colours all over each other’s face, throwing water, dancing with water sprinklers under the influence of Bhang, and you want to spend the day with a difference , explore other places to know how people celebrate Holi, here’s a list you can choose from. Be the adventurous kind and visit any of these 10 places Across India to Celebrate the Festival of Colours get ready to celebrate the Holi in its true grandeur and madness.

1. Mathura & Vrindavan 

Holi Celebration in Braj is especially famous, a historic region covering the areas of Mathura, Vrindavan and nearby places. An attraction for tourists and pilgrims from all over the world, the special customs and traditions mark the birthplace of Lord Krishna. Get ready for the colorful experience of celebrating Holi with the localities in their own ways, the dramatisation of Raas Leela played by people followed by buckets full of flowers and dry colours while chanting!

2. Shantiniketan

The celebration of Holi in Shantiniketan, West Bengal is legendary in itself. They celebrate the Basanta Utsav, every year the students wear colourful clothes preferably yellow. Rabindranath Tagore started Dol Utsav in his institution which coincides with Holi. A number of cultural programs including group choreography, dance performances, instruments, singing competitions etc. have become a neat and learned way of celebrating the festival of colours.

3. Jaipur and Udaipur

The vibrant festival is celebrated in the pink city in a majestic way, which does not come to us as a shock! It is a huge attraction for tourists, elephants parade through the city engaging in entertaining festive activities. After the parade, elephant races, elephant polo, and matches of tug of war are held, followed by the play of colours and fireworks. Holi celebration in Jaipur and Udaipur are considered to be the most royal version of the festival.

4. Goa

It is impossible that the country’s party hub will celebrate Holi quietly. With food, drinks, music and energetic people all around, it marks as the perfect way of celebrating a vibrant festival. Colorland Goa, Holi Tandav, the Holi Festival of Color with Live Rock Music for straight 4 to 5 hours are some of the ways the people of Goa wish to celebrate. Wear the quirkiest clothes and your dancing shoes this Holi and partyyy. Use the Holi Offers to grab the first flight and reach the party hub.

5. Hampi : Holi in South

Holi is celebrated as the spring season arrives, although it feels like summer already in Hampi. Yet the people of Hampi greet each other with bright smiles, literally smeared in colours, a time when a stranger becomes a friend and enjoys with you. With bright dry and liquid colours or gulal in the air, everyone feels like a child again. Hampi Holi includes traditional Kannadigas dance, drama, fireworks, puppet shows, parades, and musical instruments to renew the brilliance of yesteryears.

6. Mumbai: Holi Party & Dharavi Tour

Dharavi is the largest slum but not how you expected the Holi celebration to be. The kids, there, are very welcoming and friendly. You might enjoy it more than the last year. This is just the beginning of celebrations. Mumbai is the financial and political capital of Maharashtra, people celebrate In traditional as well as modern ways.

7. Purulia

It is one of the 20 districts of West Bengal state in Eastern India. It has a rich culture heritage, a mixture of Bengal, Jharkhand, and Odisha. People of Purulia play with colors and watch the traditional Chauu dance and a couple of other dance forms to make it more festive.

8. Delhi

The capital of India celebrates Holi in the most conventional way. It is basically a mixture of all the ways of celebrating the festival. From white clothes, DJ or a dance floor being set up, colors and eggs, being dragged into the mud, and water fights. Delhi celebrates the most musical holi of all times. People go from house to house exchanging Holi Gifts. Saddle up, now! Ready to celebrate Holi based on physical agility? It is a bit out of the box, be a part of it or at least view it once, be a sport!

9. Barsana in Uttar Pradesh

Lath Maar Holi is what they call it. Barsana is a small town about 50km north of Mathura. They have a traditional way of celebration where the men run towards the ladies of the town with colour or water and the ladies wait with a Lath or bamboo sticks to hit them back. It is fun to watch them teasing each other and also be a part of it.

10. Anandpur Sahib, Punjab

A tradition was set by Guru Gobind Singh, to hold a fair every year celebrating the festival of Holi, to understand the true meaning and significance of the day. The main purpose of the fair is to physically strengthen the Sikh community by holding intense military exercises and mock battles.

So, how many have you covered so far and how many are yet to be seen? Book your tickets soon and have an exciting and amazing new experience.

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