From the first day of the Kutch Fair, the air is charged with festivity as Bhuj reverberates with a thousand colors. Enthralling opportunities are offered to visit the surrounding areas-even to the interiors of Kutch to give visitors a glimpse of the simple lifestyle of the tribals there. The artistic creativity of the people residing in the area called Bhuga can be seen at every corner-how they use vegetable colors to create wonderful designs on the walls, and further decorating them with mirrors and beads.

All attention is, however, focused on the fair grounds at Bhuj that resound with festivity and music. Besides all this are the plethoras of cultural programs organized by the tourism department that carries on late into the night. It is really an opportunity to learn of the variety of dances that Gujarat has to offer-ranging from brisk acrobatic movements to a single fast beat ending in formation of different kinds of pyramids.

On the last day of the fair that coincides with the Shivaratri festival, a grand fair is also organized at Dhang where local people, dressed in colorful, traditional costumes, congregate to pay homage at the shrine to Mekan Dada, which incidentally, or rather curiously, has a Shivalinga on its premises. A little away, in an open field, much excitement prevails where competitions are organized-camel, horse, and bullock races and the much-loved kushti (wrestling) bouts.

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