Showing posts with the label Festival

Vietnamese Water Puppet Shows

Aug 11, 2016

For centuries, Vietnamese kids and grown-ups alike have been entertained by a unique kind of puppet show —one that is performed on water. Th...

America’s Strangest Conventions

Aug 10, 2016

For the last three years, American photographer Arthur Drooker has been to a dozen conventions across the country, photographing some of the...

Mount Bromo: The Hungry Volcano

Jul 26, 2016

Mount Bromo in East Java, Indonesia, is the youngest of several volcanoes in the Tengger massif, and is one of Java’s most active volcanoes....

Wakakusa Yamayaki: The Mountain Burning Festival

Jun 25, 2016

Fireworks are a great way to celebrate any occasion, but like NuanQuan’s molten iron throwing festival , the Japanese city of Nara ( the cit...

Flower Carpets at Infiorata Festival, Italy

May 16, 2016

The best time to visit Italy, if you want to catch the incredible Infiorata festival, is during May and June. At this time of the year, espe...

Fairytale Like Christmas Celebration in Moscow

Jan 18, 2016

Christmas in Russia is different from Christmas celebrated in the rest of the world. For starters, they are celebrated on January 7, rather ...

Kobe Luminarie Light Festival

Dec 30, 2015

One of the best display of lights in entire Japan takes place in Kobe during Kobe Luminarie. The event is held every year from early to mid-...

‘Sculpture By The Sea’ 2015 on Bondi Beach

Oct 27, 2015

Over 100 sculptures were erected on Sydney's Bondi Beach, transforming the 2km coastal walk from Bondi to Tamarama into a temporary scul...

Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling

Aug 8, 2015

For more than two hundred years the small English village of Brockworth in Gloucestershire has played host to the Cooper's Hill Cheese R...

Scarecrow Festivals in the UK

Jul 31, 2015

Scarecrow festivals are held all over the world, but they are especially popular in the United Kingdom, where the use of scarecrows as a pro...