The Rio de Janeiro Carnival - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro is a world famous festival
held before Lent every year and considered the biggest carnival in the world
with 2 million people per day on the streets. The first festivals of Rio date
back to 1823. The typical Rio carnival parade is filled with revelers, floats
and adornments from numerous samba schools which are located in Rio.
Chinese New Year
The biggest holiday, with dragons, fireworks, symbolic
clothing, flowers, lanterns, and celebration is China's most important and
significant day of the year. Also known as the Spring Festival, Chinese New
Year celebrations traditionally run from Chinese New Year's Eve, the last day
of the last month of the Chinese calendar, to the Lantern Festival on the 15th
day of the first month, making the festival the longest in the Chinese
calendar!
It marks China's greatest festival - an important
traditional Chinese holiday celebrated at the turn of the Chinese calendar. In
China, it is also known as the Spring Festival. Chinese New Year celebrations
traditionally run from Chinese New Year's Eve, the last day of the last month
of the Chinese calendar, to the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first
month, making the festival the longest in the Chinese calendar.
Boryeong Mud Festival - South Korea
A South Korea cosmetics company developed a line of beauty
products which featured mud from the Boryeong mud flats as a main ingredient.
Since the company couldn't be bothered to spend money on commercials, the
Boryeong Mud Festival was born so potential customers could feel the benefits
of the special mud firsthand. In case you attend and get bored of the mud
slides, mud prison, mud pools, and mud skiing, you can enjoy live music,
acupuncture, and the festival's culminating fireworks display.
Burning Man - Black Rock Desert, Nevada, USA
Burning Man is an annual event when up to 48,000 people
gather in Nevada’s Black Rock desert to create art and express their
individuality. It takes its name from the ritual burning of a large wooden
effigy, which is set alight on Saturday evening. The event is described as an
experiment in community, art, radical self-expression, and radical
self-reliance. People who have gone to Burning Man gatherings claim you
need to attend to truly understand.
White Nights Festival - St. Petersburg, Russia
The White Nights Festival is an annual international arts
festival during the season of the midnight sun. It consists of a series of
classical ballet, opera and music events and includes performances by Russian
dancers, singers, musicians and actors, as well as famous international guest
stars. The Scarlet Sails celebration is the culmination of the White Nights
season, the largest public event anywhere in Russia with the annual estimated
attendance about 1 million people, most of whom are students from thousands of
schools and colleges, both local and international.
The Running of the Bulls is a part of the famous San Fermin
festival - a practice that involves running in front of a small group of bulls
(typically a dozen) that have been let loose on a course of a sectioned-off
subset of a town's streets. A first rocket is set off at 8 a.m. to alert
the runners that the corral gate is open. A second rocket signals that all six
bulls have been released. The third and fourth rockets are signals that all of
the herd has entered the bullring and its corral respectively, marking the end
of the event. Every year between 200 and 300 people are injured during the
run although most injuries are contusions due to falls and are not serious. So
you think you're up for it?
Holi - India
Holi is a spring festival also known as the festival of
colors. It is an ancient Hindu religious festival which starts with a Holika
bonfire on the night before Holi where people gather, sing and dance. The next
morning is free for all carnival of colors, where everyone plays, chases and
colors each other with dry powder and colored water, with some carrying water
guns and colored water-filled balloons for their water fight. Anyone and
everyone is fair game, friend or stranger, rich or poor, man or woman, children
and elders. Groups carry drums and musical instruments, go from place to place,
sing and dance.
Up Helly Aa Fire Festival - Scotland
It takes place in Lerwick, Shetland, on the last Tuesday in January every year. Up Helly Aa day involves a series of marches and visitations, culminating in a torch-lit procession and the burning of a galley. This is followed by hours of performing acts and dancing in halls throughout Lerwick. There is a main guizer who is dubbed the "Jarl". There is a committee which a person must be part of for 15 years before one can be a jarl, and only one person is elected to this committee each year. The procession culminates in the torches being thrown into a replica Viking longship or galley.
Carnival of Venice - Venice, Italy
The tradition of carnival dates back over 900 years. It was the one time during the year when there were no bounds. Everybody was free to do things desired all year without any guilt thanks to the masks. During the carnival, Venice comes alive with masked Venetians and tourists. Bands,jugglers and entertainers are everywhere and the canals are full of colorful boats. The nights are also full of parties and masked balls.It gives you a feeling as if fairy tales are coming alive!
Its a festival that witnesses thousands of sky lanterns light over Pingxi District in Taiwan. It was originally celebrated to ward of evil and disease from the town. The Taipei Pingshi Sky Lanterns were released originally to let others know that the town was safe. These lanterns are decorated with wishes and images relating to the owner and finally they're released off into the sky together magically decorating the sky into a sanctuary of lights.
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