Events - 16 Sep 16

Saputara Monsoon Festival is a month-long event, organized and promoted by tourism department. The monsoon festival begins in August month every year.The festival features plentiful events, activities and cultural programs in 30 days. Local Dangi food items and spectacular cultural shows portraying lifestyle of Adivasis are most exiciting events of the festival. From 10-year-old  kids to 90-year-old grandma, the festival guarantees good time for everyone.

Heikru Hidongba is the traditional boat race festival celebrated in Manipur. The festival has a great heritage and celebrated with a ritualistic approach. Heikru Hidongba usually falls in the month of September.

Heikru Hidongba is a festival of religious and cultural importance. The main highlight of the festival is the boat race in which two long narrow boats are used to race at Thangapat in Sagolband Bijoy Gobinda. The boats are operated by rowers and each boat has a leader or captain called the ‘Tengmai Lappa’. As a religious ritual, the race commences after offering prayers and installing the idol of Lord Vishnu. Heikru or gooseberry is offered to the lord.