Pokhara, December 16
Like in previous years, the Restaurant and Bar Association (REBAN) Pokhara is organising the 21st edition of street festival at Pokhara’s popular tourism hub, Lakeside, from December 28, 2019, to January 1, 2020.
At a press conference, REBAN shared that that event would be organised with a slogan ‘Let us enjoy street food and festival of Pokhara’. This year’s street festival is to be organised coinciding with the government-announced Nepal Visit Year 2020.
The REBAN team has reached Chitwan via Itahari and Janakpur for wider publicity of Pokhara street festival. According to the festival co-convener Naresh Bhattarai, the festival would be organised with an estimated cost of Rs 7 million while it is expected to draw an income of Rs 8.5 million.
Main attractions of the festival would be national and international cultural programmes, stage shows and sale of national and international varieties of street foods. Likewise, an exhibition of handicrafts, entertaining sports programmes, adventurous tourism events, documentary screening, children’s park and performance of various artists would also be featured in the festival.
Visitors from Chitwan, Kathmandu, Birgunj, Bhairahawa, Janakpur and Lumbini among other parts of the country and Lakhnau and Gorakhpur of India are expected to visit the festival, the organiser shared.
The street would have over 2,000 stalls of nine kinds.
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