May, 2023
Nikko Toshogu Shrine, Japan
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A procession of 1,000 samurai warriors staged at a world heritage site
The highlight of this festival is the procession called Hyakumono-Zoroe Sennin Gyoretsu of some 1,000 men dressed as samurai warriors on the 18th. Nikko Toshogu, which is registered as a...
May 26 - June 17, 2023
Sydney, Australia
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Sydney is transformed for 23 days and nights by Vivid Sydney, an annual festival of creativity, innovation, and technology. For its 12th year, Vivid Sydney combined art, innovation, and technology in 2022 in association with some of the most...
April 23, 2023
Barcelona, Spain
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Roses, books and lovers: Barcelona is full of them on 23 April. In Catalonia the World Book Day becomes an especially romantic festivity. The people in Catalonia celebrate the day of their patron saint, Sant Jordi, with a curious tradition.
In spring you...
April 7 - 16, 2017
Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
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Come to Whistler for the largest music and snow sport celebration of North America, with plenty of snow to go around. The TELUS World Ski & Snowboard Festival is the biggest gathering of winter sports, music, arts and...
March 8, 2023
India and Nepal
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The most boisterous of Hindu festivals, Holi waves goodbye to winter and welcomes in spring in a rainbow of colours. In India it’s predominantly celebrated in the north of the country, and is quite rightly known as the Festival of Colours...
September - March
Northern Norway
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Experiencing the unbelievable colours moving across the Arctic sky is on many travellers’ bucket list.
It is often said that the northern parts of Norway is the best places in the world to see the northern light. If we are to be honest, that is...