The Chaitra Dasain sacrifices also signal the start of the Sweta (White) Machhendranath festival, a month prior to the much larger and more important Rato (Red) Machhendranath festival in Patan. The festival starts with the removal of the image of Sweta Machhendranath from the temple at Kel Tole and placing it on a towering and creaky wooden temple chariot or rath. For the next four evenings the chariot proceeds from one historic location to another eventually arriving at Lagantol in the south Kathmandu . There the image is taken down from the chariot and carried back to its starting point in a palanquin while the chariot is disassembled and put away until next year.