World's 5 Most Amazing Festivals and Events
It is one
thing to see the world but it is another to experience it. Adventurous
travelers looking for something extra often time their trips to see some of the
world's great festivals and events. Now to help intrepid travelers there is a
new book: "Frommer's 300 Unmissable Events & Festivals
Around The World." This new offbeat guide looks at exciting
celebrations around the globe and includes hundreds of color photos. We have
picked 10 of our favorite events from the collection.
We start in
Sacramento, Calif., where each Labor Day weekend the old city celebrates Gold Rush Days and transforms into a Wild West scene form
the 1850s.
How can you beat skeleton candy, seasonal bread and
all-night parties in cemeteries? Welcome to Days of The Dead (Dia de los
Muertos) in Oaxaca, Mexico. The early November festival is dedicated on
its first day to children who have died and on the second day to adult
relatives. Children are excited in the weeks running up to the festival as
coffin- and skeleton-shaped sweets and paper mache skeleton puppets fill the
shops and markets.
Travelers often get dirty on their adventures but this
Scottsdale, Ariz., festival takes things to extremes. Each July during Mighty Mud
Mania, families frolic in the mud, proving that a little dirt does make life
a little more enjoyable. The event started out in 1976 as a promotional stunt
for a cleaning product but failed when the Arizona mud proved too tough to wash
out.
Everybody
knows about Carnival in Rio but what about Carnival in Cologne,
Germany? It's the same idea: floats, screaming crowds and bands. But in
Germany during this annual festival, the Thursday to Monday before Ash
Wednesday, you also get good German beer and men who have their ties cut in
half.
Make your way to one of the world's most remote festivals to
watch painted bodies dance and a nightly ceremony during the second week of
August. But to get to the Aboriginal Garma Festival in Gulkula, Arnhem Land in
northern Australia you need an invitation. So register early at the festival's Web site.
The Garma ceremony is aimed at sharing knowledge and culture, and opening
people's hearts to the message of the land at Gulkula.
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