World Festivals!!
September 19th 2008 01:18
Let's go festival chasing!! I know it's stupid to plan your travels around festivals as its always going to be the most expensive time to go, with little chance of getting into the accommodations you want and there will be floods of people you'll never see the light of the day. However some of these festivals just look so colourful, exciting and interesting I wonder one day, if I get a 1 year round the world ticket and just plan my months against the festivals happening in the world, it'd be a whole year of partying!!
Although besides all the known ones such as the big carnivals of Venice and Rio de Janiero, and the Oktoberfest in Munich and the Love Parade in Berlin, there are some quirky ones that Lonely Planet has dug up to share!
-- Taken from Lonely Planet Comet newsletter --
online link here
January - Voodoo Festival, Ouidah, Benin
Watch the horses, drink the gin and visit tents of different voodoo sects.
February - Thaipusam, Batu Caves, Malaysia
Malaysia's most spectacular Hindu festival and a wild orgy of body piercings.
March - Holi, northern India and Nepal
Take to the streets, armed with water and colourful gulal (powder), and get throwing!
April - Walpurgisnacht (Witches’ Night), Brocken, Germany
Get thee to a mountain top in the company of witches and warlocks.
May - Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling, Brockworth, England
Chase a small block of cheese down a very steep slope.
June - The Dreaming, Woodford, Australia
Australia's first international indigenous festival takes place in a secluded valley.
July - Wife-Carrying World Championships, Sonkajärvi, Finland
Grab your partner by the legs and win her weight in beer.
August - Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland
The world's largest arts festival turns Edinburgh into a citywide performance artwork.
September - Cure Salée (Salt Cure), Tegguidda-n-Tessoum, In-Gall, Niger
Journey to the deepest Sahara to watch bachelors in a beauty contest.
October - Entenrennen (Duck Race) Tübingen, Germany
Not exactly the Running of the Bulls, more the racing of the rubber ducks.
November - Pirates Week Festival, George Town Harbour, Cayman Islands
Geared towards infant swashbucklers and kicked off with a mock invasion.
December - Mevlâna Festival (Whirling Dervishes Festival) Konya, Turkey
Be mesmerised as the dervishes dance their elegant, trance-like whirl.
Although besides all the known ones such as the big carnivals of Venice and Rio de Janiero, and the Oktoberfest in Munich and the Love Parade in Berlin, there are some quirky ones that Lonely Planet has dug up to share!
-- Taken from Lonely Planet Comet newsletter --
online link here
January - Voodoo Festival, Ouidah, Benin
Watch the horses, drink the gin and visit tents of different voodoo sects.
February - Thaipusam, Batu Caves, Malaysia
Malaysia's most spectacular Hindu festival and a wild orgy of body piercings.
March - Holi, northern India and Nepal
Take to the streets, armed with water and colourful gulal (powder), and get throwing!
April - Walpurgisnacht (Witches’ Night), Brocken, Germany
Get thee to a mountain top in the company of witches and warlocks.
May - Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling, Brockworth, England
Chase a small block of cheese down a very steep slope.
June - The Dreaming, Woodford, Australia
Australia's first international indigenous festival takes place in a secluded valley.
July - Wife-Carrying World Championships, Sonkajärvi, Finland
Grab your partner by the legs and win her weight in beer.
August - Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland
The world's largest arts festival turns Edinburgh into a citywide performance artwork.
September - Cure Salée (Salt Cure), Tegguidda-n-Tessoum, In-Gall, Niger
Journey to the deepest Sahara to watch bachelors in a beauty contest.
October - Entenrennen (Duck Race) Tübingen, Germany
Not exactly the Running of the Bulls, more the racing of the rubber ducks.
November - Pirates Week Festival, George Town Harbour, Cayman Islands
Geared towards infant swashbucklers and kicked off with a mock invasion.
December - Mevlâna Festival (Whirling Dervishes Festival) Konya, Turkey
Be mesmerised as the dervishes dance their elegant, trance-like whirl.
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