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- 1. HOLI – INDIA by Rita The Holi festival is a popular festival in India in spring. Are the party of colors and one festival very important for India. In this celebration is celebrated the change from winter to spring. They do it with a lot of color. During this celebration, people painted and throwing colored powders called Gulai.
- 2. THE CARNIVAL OF VENICE by David F. The Carnival of Venice starts around two weeks before Ash Wednesday and ends on Shrove Tuesday. It always takes place during the ten days leading up to Shrove Tuesday. Carnival, being a pre-Lent festival, means 'farewell to meat'. The Venetian carnival tradition is most famous for its distinctive masks. The mask is a symbol of the game but also of equality. Wearing masks and costumes people can completely hide their identity.
- 3. Pingxi lantern festival Taiwan by Aina It is a Chinese festival. Is that there are thousands of lanterns light on pingxi district in Taiwan, It was originally to ward off evil and disease in the city These lanterns decorated with wishes and images related to the owner.
- 4. Up Helly Aa in Scotland by Younesse Up Helly Aa refers to a variety of fire festivals held in the Shetland Islands in Scotland annually in the middle of winter to mark the end of the Christmas season. The festival includes a parade of up to a thousand guizers in Lerwick and has other considerably smaller celebrations of rural festivals, formed in squadrons that march by the city or by the town with a variety of thematic costumes.
- 5. LA TOMATINA by Jennifer Usually, the fight lasts for an hour, after which the whole town square has been covered with tomato paste.Fire trucks then hose down the streets and participants often use hoses that locals provide to remove the tomato paste from their bodies. Some participants go to the pool of “los peñones” to wash.
- 6. DAY OF THE DEAD by Pili This is a traditional festival of Mexico. In these days there have gatherings whit family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died, and help support their spiritual journey. They create altars with a lot of presents for they. It starts at 31 of October and finish at 3 of November.
- 7. The Songkran Water Festival by Irene The Songkran Water Festival, also know as the Traditional Thai New Year, is usually celebrated in mid-April in Thailand. The Songkran Wter Festival is a time when family and friends gather to pay gratitude to elders and visit temples for prayer and offering. Is also The Songkran Water Festival a period when the Thai people cleanse and pour water mixed with Thai fragance on Buddha images. The festival also showcases a bathing ritual where the people pour water on the senior Buddhist monks.
- 8. White Nights Festival by Joan Every year, in St Petersburg, there are white nights. This is a natural phenomenon, makes the night more short. There are 5.000.000 tourist and resident in this festival. This is only in one month, in July. The White Nights Festival is famous for the fireworks, dances, shows and a lot of activities more.
- 9. ALBURQUERQUE INTERNATIONAL BALLOON FIESTA by Alexandra The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta began in 1972, as the highlight of a 50th birthday celebration for 770 KOB Radio. Is a yearly festival of hot air balloons that takes place in Albuquerque, New Mexico, (USA). It is celebrated in early October. The Balloon Fiesta is a nine-day event, and has over 500 balloons each year. The event is the largest hot air balloon festival in the world. The main events are: the dawn patrol, mass ascensions, artistic vision, special shape rodeo, balloon glows and special events and competitions.