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View from Chamba Pattan 


Pragpur offers a host of activities. It has a quaint market where several silversmiths ply their trade and will quickly modify trinkets to satisfy individual taste. The several village weavers will make shawls and blankets to order and tailors will make up dresses overnight.
Easy excursions are possible, including visits to Kangra Fort, Dharamsala and Mcleodganj, the seat of His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Dada Siba and the river Beas.

Angling
The picturesque Kangra valley has several spots that offer mahaseer river carp. The reservoir of the Maharana Pratap Sagar right up to the town of Dehra has good spots. Nadaun along the river Beas has some good beats, besides Chamba Pattan near Garli (accessible from Nadaun or Jwalamukhi), Amtar (2 km from Nadaun), Harsi Pattan (30 km from Tira Sujanpur) and Lambagaon (15 km from Tira Sujanpur).

Water and River Sports
The Maharana Pratap Sagar reservoir in Kangra with its 42 km length and 2 km breadth, offers a variety of activities in close collaboration with the Directorate of Mountaineering and Allied Sports. Year long activities include swimming, water-skiing, surfing, kayaking, rowing, canoeing and sailing. Three levels of courses are conducted - beginner, intermediate and advanced.

The countryside is ideal for low-level treks and walks. Those interested in nature study and bird watching will get their fill. The Beas River is within 6 kms. and offers the possibility of angling during season ( winter to early summer).
Picnics and visits to local historical sites and monuments are arranged, and satisfying hours can be spent exploring nearby Garli (lovely old houses in Simla architecture) and Pragpur (cobbled streets and ancestral homes).


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interesting forthcoming events will include the opening of the Village Museum, the commencement of construction of campus of a Sanskrit University and a Village Library.

 

 

 

Seasonal fruit is in plenty with :

- Citrus from November to January

- Lychees towards towards mid June

- Mangoes in mid July



















There are possibilities to attend many fairs and festivals from Heritage Village Pragpur.
The festival of "Lohri" has been designated by the Government as Festival of Heritage Village Pragpur and falls each year on the 13th January.

The chart of Fairs and Festivals will help in determining itineraries to Heritage Village Pragpur.

The Dates of Festivals can change by a day or so specially as some are based on the Lunar Calendar.


Fair
Festival
Location
Year 2006
Year 2007
Description
Lohri-Festival of Heritage village
Pragpur

Heritage Village,Pragpur

Jan 13th
Jan 13th
A community Festival of joy celebrated with bonfires.
Signifies the movement of the sun from the Southern to Northern hemisphere.
Basant Panchami Feb 2nd Jan 23rd Heralds Spring. Celebrated with wearing yellow, kite flying & music
Shivratri
Heritage Vllage, Pragpur
Chintpurni and Jwalamukhi
Feb 26th
Feb 16th
The Darkest Night that is also the night of Shiva.
Celebrates the union of the positive and the negative that is also the enternal moment.

Holi

Holi-Mohala

Sujanpur Tira (50 Kms.)
Baba Bharwag Singh 12 km
Anandpur Sahib
(100 Kms.)
Mar 14th
Mar 3rd
Exorcising the evil spirit.

A fabulous festival of Punjab

Baisakhi

"Ralli"

Kalesar (6 Kms. by walk
16 Kms. by road )
April 13th
April 13th
Celebrates the commentcement of harvesting and the New Year.
Spring Navratra
Fair & Ram Naumi
Jwalamukhi and Chintpurni (25 Kms)
Mar 30th 
to April 8th
Mar 19th 
to 28th
Marks the change of season and 9 nights of worship of Shiva
Summer Festival
Dharamshala (60 Kms)
June 1st week
June 1st week
Tourist attraction
Monsoon Fair
Chintpurni (25Kms)
Aug 7th & 8th
Aug 7th
& 8th
Tourist attraction
Janamashthami & Local Gugga Naumi Heritage Village
Pragpur
Aug 15th-16th Sept
3rd-4th
Birth of Lord Krishna & Fair at local shrines known as Guggas
Wrestling Fair
Heritage Village Pragpur
Sept
7th -
11th
Sept
7th -
11th
Special fair of Pragpur at which Wrestlers from far and near participate.
Autumn Navratra Fair
Jwalamukhi and
Chintpurni
(25 Kms)
Sept
23rd to
Oct 2nd
Oct 6th
to
12th
Marks the change of season and 9 nights of worship of shiva
Dussehra

Dehra
(10 Kms)
&
Heritage Village
Pragpur

Oct
2nd
Oct
21st
A Fair that celebrates victory of Good over Evil
Diwali
Heritage Village
Pragpur
Oct
21st
Nov
9th
Hindu New Financial Year and Festival of lights.


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