Women line up to present offerings during the Holi festival in Kathmandu, Nepal


The chir pole or tree symbolises the tree around which a playful Krishna once draped the garments shed by milkmaids bathing in the Jamuna River of northern India.


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Location: Durbar Square, Kathmandu, Nepal
Photo credit: © Philip Game / Alamy / Afripics
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