| Teesta Tea Tourism Festival | | | | Nyempa Guzom |
| Teesta Tea and Tourism Festival is an inter-state | | | | Nyempa Guzom is a festival that is celebrated within |
| festival celebrated every year either in November or | | | | the Monasteries in Sikkim. Common people visit and |
| December at Darjeeling and Dooars of West Bengal | | | | offer gifts of fruits, sweets & even donations and pray |
| and at Sikkim. The festival is aimed for the promotion | | | | for the good will of their family and beloved ones. It |
| of tourism. The West Bengal Tourism, Darjeeling | | | | falls on the 6th and 7th day of the 11th month of |
| Gorkha Hill Council, and Sikkim Tourism, supported by | | | | Tibetan calendar, which sometime around December - |
| the Tourism Department of India Government, jointly | | | | January. This is observed few days after Loosung. |
| organize the festival. It holds many cultural programs, | | | | Tamu Lochar |
| water sports, food carnival, toy train ride, and film fests. | | | | This festival is celebrated by Gurung Communities in |
| Sikkimese New Year | | | | the state. It is symbolizes the arrival of Tamu New |
| Losoong is the New Year for the people of Sikkim. It | | | | Year. It falls on Pus pandra i.e 15th day of the nine |
| generally, falls in the month of December and marks | | | | month of Nepali Calendar, which is sometime during |
| the end of harvesting season. The highlights of the | | | | December. This marks the celebration after a year's |
| festival are Chaam dances and archery contests. | | | | hardwork. This month is barred from any kind of |
| Losoong festival is also famous as Sonam Losoong | | | | ploughing and digging. According to legends, the |
| (Farmers' New Year). It falls on the 18th day of the | | | | ancestors of Tamus known as Khemas did a long |
| 10th month of the Tibetan lunar calendar and dots the | | | | meditation and Lord Buddha himself appeared to them |
| agricultural New Year when rice and grains are in | | | | on this day of Pus pandra and enlightened them. Thus, |
| plenty. People of Sikkim celebrate this day by | | | | this day was very auspicious to them and they then |
| performing a very famous Chaam dance. They also | | | | started the Tamu Buddhism. On this day the Lo (birth |
| make offerings to the gods, both in gompas and in | | | | sign) changes and is considered propitious for |
| their domestic shrines. Sonam Losoong is more of a | | | | calculating the good and bad scope of particular lo |
| private affair. People get up before dawn to take bath | | | | whereby the monks declare specific prayers to be |
| and wear new clothes. Later, all the family members | | | | performed for each lo. All types of decisions are taken |
| sit together to pray for peace and prosperity. This | | | | and debts are repaid on this date. The festivity lasts |
| festival lasts for 15 days. | | | | for three days. |