Category: Events
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12 Ways of Christmas: How to Celebrate Christmas Around the World
Discover a dozen unusual yuletide celebrations and traditions, from rollerskating to, er, a pooping log… Krampus, Germany In Austria and Bavaria you might… offer schnapps to a demon On 5 December (the night before the Feast of St Nicholas) Krampus – a chained, hairy, demonic creature with goat’s horns, fangs and hoofed feet – chases…
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Sri Lanka’s Sacred Summits
Adam’s Peak At the top of Sri Lanka’s holiest mountain, Sri Pada (‘holy foot’), is a giant footprint believed variously to belong to Lord Buddha, Shiva and Adam, and therefore sacred to Buddhists, Hindus and Muslims alike. Join the pilgrims setting out in the early hours to reach the peak in time to see the…
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Moorish Spain in 5 places
In AD 711, an Islamic army from North Africa crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and began an invasion of the Iberian Peninsula. That conquest resulted in the creation of Al-Andalus, a domain of the vast Umayyad Caliphate. Though the last Moorish ruler was expelled from Granada by the Christian monarchs Isabella and Ferdinand in 1492,…
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Best Bizarre Festivals in Colombia
Fiesta de las Aguas, Pasto, February Following the grease- and talcum-coated fun of Carnaval, the town of Pasto washes itself clean with a giant water fight. Water is poured from balconies and everyone in town is fair game. Festival del Burro, San Antero, Córdoba, Easter The people of the Caribbean coastal town of San Antero…
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Tapati festival in chile
or Semana Rapa Nui Held each year in late January/early February, Tapati is organized on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) as a huge competition between groups, many of them families, each of which elects a beauty queen. It begins slowly but builds momentum as the fortnight goes on. Families score points by participating in a wide…
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Oktoberfest – All You Need to Know
Travel to the world’s most popular Oktoberfest celebrations in Munich, where September 21 marks the start of the sixteen-day festival of the year. This colorful event is more than just a festival; it is a Bavarian tradition of gaiety held late September, early October, ever since 12 October 1810. Each year during July, beer tents…