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fairs and festivals in Jaipur held all the year round, Jaipur attracts large number of tourists every year. The festivals are celebrated with great fervor and gaiety and being in Jaipur during the festive times is truly an experience you would cherish all your lives. Festivals are commonplace all through the year in Jaipur and throughout Rajasthan. Visitors lucky enough to experience one of the region's largest festivals and events will find plenty to enjoy and things to do, ranging from costumed processions through the streets of central Jaipur, kite-flying demonstrations, livestock markets and fairs with cattle and camels, and many fireworks displays. Particularly popular in the Jaipur region is the Camel Festival each January, the Elephant Festival in March, and also the Gangaur Festival, which lasts for 18 days and features local girls dressed in their finest attire. Jaipur's main events are described below month by month. Teej festival is usually celebrated in the first week of August and is celebrated to welcome the coming of the monsoon season. Celebrated in March or April a fortnight after Holi, Gangaur is one of the major festivals of Jaipur. In this festival the womenfolk worship goddess Gauri for marital bliss and long lives of their husbands. The festival is marked by huge processions taken out through out the city. Elephant festival, kite festival, Maker Sankranti etc. are other important fairs and festivals celebrated in Jaipur.