The truck driver loading the cattle into the truck in Sonepur cattle fair.
Sonepur mela is held on kartik poornima in the month of november in sonepur,35 kms from patna,capital of Bihar at the Ganga and Gandak junction. It is of the large cattle fair held in the world. In Sonepur Mela almost all types of animals are brought here for sale. The Sonepur Cattle Fair once used to attract traders from places as distant as Central Asia. Till date, it is the biggest cattle fair of Asia and stretches on from fifteen days to one month. Numerous stalls are also set up at the grounds of the Sonepur Cattle Fair where we can find a wide variety of goods in these stalls, ranging from garments, to weapons and furniture to toys, utensils and agricultural implements to jewelry and handicrafts.
Source: Wikipedia
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