Rath Yatra

Jagannath, Balabhadra and Subhadra travel from the Puri temple to the Gundicha temple, their aunt's house, and return nine days later. It is the one time of year the deities leave the sanctum, and famously the one occasion when anyone, of any caste or faith, may see them, since they come out into the street.

Three enormous chariots are newly built each year from specified timber and never reused. The Puri king sweeps the chariot platform with a golden broom, chhera pahara, an act of ritual humility by the highest-ranked man present. Then the chariots are pulled by hand by the crowd.

Mahaprasad from the Puri kitchen, one of the largest temple kitchens in the world, and poda pitha, a baked rice-and-jaggery cake said to be Jagannath's favourite.

Puri is the origin and the largest. Ahmedabad's Rath Yatra is the second biggest and a major Gujarati event. ISKCON has taken the form worldwide, London, New York, Melbourne all hold one.