April 7 - 10, 2023 Lexton, Victoria, Australia Details The small town of Lexton in regional Victoria sees its quiet population of about 150 increase to over 10,000 over the course of each long weekend during the Australia Day national holiday as festival-goers from all over the world...
November 8 - 9, 2022 Chiang Mai, Thailand Details In Chiang Mai, Loy Krathong is preceded by Yee Peng (The Lantern Festival), during which people release floating lanterns into the sky. It is during Yee Peng that you see locals' homes and public places decked out in colourful...
October 28, 2022 Mexico Details Dia de los Muertos is a tradition that has been around for centuries, and has been celebrated in a variety of ways. A Mexican holiday celebrated throughout Mexico and around the world in other cultures. The holiday focuses on gatherings of family and...
October 28 - 30, 2022 Tocumwal, NSW, Australia Details A few hours west of Melbourne, Australia, Strawberry Fields is an annual celebration of art, sound, and creative expression that lasts for three days in November. Every year, a wide variety of well-known and ground-breaking electronic music from Australia...
August 13 - 15, 2023 Japan Details Buddhists celebrate Obon every year as a time to remember their ancestors. Every year, during obon, it is thought that the ghosts of the ancestors visit their loved ones in this world. In accordance with custom, food sacrifices are made at...
August 28 - September 5, 2022 Black Rock City, NV, USA Details Burning Man isn’t your usual festival. It’s a city wherein almost everything that happens is created entirely by its citizens, who are active participants in the experience. The Playa (the desert stage location where the Man, the...
July 7 , 2022 Nationwide, Japan Details Tanabata, commonly referred to as the "star festival," occurs on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. According to the traditionally established lunar calendar, the seventh month of the year roughly corresponds to August rather than July, hence in certain...
May, 2023 Nikko Toshogu Shrine, Japan Details 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...
April 23, 2023 Barcelona, Spain Details 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 23, 2023 London, UK Details The London Marathon is a long-distance running event held in London, United Kingdom, part of the World Marathon Majors. The event was first run on 29 March 1981 and has been held in the spring of every year since. Since 2010, the race has...
