Garuda Indonesia Colours Magazine October 2015 | Page 166

164

Travel | Festival of Lights

© Rajesh_Pamani / Flickr; © F.Bettex - Mysterra.org / Alamy Stock Photo; © McKay Savage / flickr; © Ishan Khosla / Flickr

Kartika
Poornima is a Hindu,
Jain and Sikh holy
festival, celebrated on
the purnima (full moon)
day or the fifteenth

lunar day of the month
of Kartika. It is also
called Deva-Diwali or
Deva-Deepawali:
the Festival of Lights
of the Gods.