What is Holi, the Hindu festival of colors? Holi is celebrated at the end of winter and the beginning of spring, on the last full moon day of the Hindu luni-solar calendar month of Falgun.
Hindus began their huge pilgrimage in Indian Kashmir The pilgrimage is a journey to a cave shrine at an altitude of 3,900 metres (12,795 feet) that contains a holy stalagmite, believed to be an incarnation of the deity Shiva.