The most important festival for the followers of ‘Shaivism’, celebrated in late winter, when the luni-solar month of the Hindu calendar: ‘Phalguna’ reaches its 14th evening. People all over India take holy bath, perform fasts and rituals, pay offerings to temple and celebrate this night as the marriage ceremony of Lord Shiva and Mata Parvati.
In Varanasi, people celebrate Maha #Shivaratri or the ‘Great Night of Shiva’ by committing on a breathtaking journey of salvation, called #PanchkroshiYatra !
Devotees take a walk of 80 K.m. on foot through an ancient holy route and complete the journey within 24 hrs!
