There is a popular saying that in Kathmandu every nest day is a festival and every other house in a temple. Most festivals honor a deity with worshippers crowding around a shrine to perform puja. Temple courtyards are filled with long queues of people waiting to worship. Great processions win through the streets of the tree old cities, Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and Lalitpur, and other cities of Nepal. These processions are accompanied by bands of Newar musicians and masked dancers. Sometimes idols of Gods are paraded in gigantic wooden chariot Rath unique to Nepal