Bous a la Mar: The Spanish Festival of Chasing Bulls to The Sea
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 2, 2015
All throughout the year, but particularly during local festivals, a number of bull-related sports and events take place all over Spain. Whil...
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Rouketopolemos: The Easter Rocket War of Vrontados
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 30, 2015
The Greeks like to celebrate Easter with fireworks, but the townsfolk of Vrontados on the Greek island of Chios aren’t satisfied with simple...
The Ottery Tar Barrels Burning Festival
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 15, 2015
Every year on November 5th, for reasons lost in antiquity, the villagers of Ottery St Mary, Devon in England’s West Country race through the...
Sumo Wrestlers Scare Babies at Nakizumo Festival
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 1, 2015
Every spring, a fierce competition takes place between enormous sumo wrestlers, but they aren’t wrestling each other to the ground. They...
Ice fishing in South Korea’s Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice festival
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 12, 2015
Every year in the month of January, over a million people flock to the quiet town of Hwacheon to participate in the Sancheoneo Ice Festival....
Gubbio’s Enormous Christmas Tree on Mount Ingino
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 2, 2014
Every year on Christmas, the small medieval town of Gubbio, in northern Italy, lights up the world’s biggest Christmas tree on the slopes of...
The Flower Laden Patios Festival of Cordoba
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 28, 2014
Every spring, in the beginning of May, the city of Cordoba, in southern Spain, bursts into bloom with special festivities as the city launch...
Bloemencorso Zundert Flower Parade 2014
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 16, 2014
Zundert, a small town in the Netherlands located at the Belgian border, hosts the world’s biggest flower parade, featuring twenty floats of ...
Bun Bang Fai Rocket Festival in Yasothon, Thailand
Kaushik Patowary
May 15, 2014
Bun Bang Fai, or the rocket festival, is a merit-making ceremony traditionally practiced by ethnic Lao people throughout much of northeast T...
Bloemencorso Zundert Flower Parade 2013
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 6, 2013
Bloemencorso Zundert is the biggest event of the year for the small town of Zundert, the Netherlands, and incidentally, the largest flower ...
The Aftermath of a Music Festival
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 4, 2013
The morning after the night the Reading Festival concluded, and the festival goers disseminated, photographer David White took off in a heli...
6 More Interesting Events of August
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 8, 2013
A year ago, we scoured every nook and corner of the earth and rounded up some of the strangest festivals celebrated every year in the month ...
Antogo: Crazy Fishing Ritual in Mali
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 10, 2013
Built among boulders in the dry and arid Dogon county in Mali, at the foot of an incredible 500 meter high escarpment, lies a small village ...
Up Helly Aa: The Viking Fire Festival
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 12, 2013
Every year, thousands of Scots gather for the Up Helly Aa fire festival in Lerwick on the Scottish Shetland Islands to pay homage to the cou...
Camel Wrestling in Turkey
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 1, 2013
Camel Wrestling is a traditional sport very popular along the west coast of Turkey, where male camels from local villages are pit against ea...
Magnificent Flower Sculptures at Bloemencorso Zundert Flower Parade
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 25, 2012
Flower parades are held all over the world , but the one that takes place in Zundert, the Netherland, is extraordinarily artistic. It’s also...
Sawdust Carpets During Semana Santa in Antigua
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 5, 2012
Antigua, Guatemala puts up one of the largest Easter celebration in North America, with an estimated 200,000 people flocking to this Colonia...
India’s Death Defying ‘Maut ka Kuaa’ or ‘Well of Death’
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 2, 2012
‘Maut ka Kuaa’, which translates to the ‘Well of Death’ in English, also sometimes called the ‘Wall of Death’, is a death defying and gravit...
Human Tower Building at Castells Competition in Tarragona
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 23, 2012
The Tarragona Human Tower Competition is an annual sporting event carried out by the best teams in the country and it is held every two year...
10 Wacky Festivals Celebrated in the Month of October
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 5, 2012
Here is another round of unusual festivals celebrated in October in different parts of the world. Tübingen Duck Race Every year since 19...
