Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, April 09 2009:
The Manipur Tourism Festival 2009 & Best of Asia Expo, earlier scheduled to be inaugurated on April 10 will be held from April 12 to 21, informed a press release issued by the Directorate of Tourism.
BT Park, southern extension will be the main venue of the festival.
In addition to 70 stalls of Manipur and some others from other States of India, three stalls of Thailand and one of Myanmar will be opened during the tourism festival.
Moreover, the festival will feature many outdoor activities such as hot air ballooning, parasailing, caving expedition and indigenous game like Polo (Pana style) exhibition match, Arambai demonstration as well as Mukna and Yubi Lakpi.
Evening cultural programmes will encompass a wide diversity of dances of different communities of the State.
The additional attraction will be Odissi and Chhow dances from Orissa, it conveyed.
The Manipur Tourism Festival 2009 & Best of Asia Expo which would be jointly hosted by the Department of Tourism and the Nirvana Pilgrim Society Exposition Kolkata will also feature seminars on border trade and medical tourism, it added.