Festivals

Magh Mela Festival
India: January
Hundreds of thousands of Hindus will gather in the Sangam to perform a sacred ritual-washing with water. This way they will wash away their sins. The festival is celebrated for 45 days.

Madri Gras
New Orleans, USA: late February-early MarchThe crazy day of separation before Lent, known as the last day of sinful life, before entering into humility and giving up pleasures.

Pingxi Lantern
Taiwan: February
People write their wishes on paper Chinese lanterns, which are then massively launched into the sky, which creates a beautiful spectacle of floating lights.

Carnival in Venice
Italy: February-March
One of the most beautiful festivals in the world: people in masks and beautiful complex costumes that hide the differences between classes. There is a competition for the best costume.

Frozen Dead Guy Days
The Netherlands, peak Colorado: March
Held in honor of a frozen person whose body is stored in this state pending defrosting. People dress up as the frozen dead and organize various themed events: coffin-bearing, cassock procession, polar stride, parties.

Sandfest
Port of Arkansas, Texas: April
Amazing sand figure contest. The events are accompanied by live music.

San Fermin Festival
July-August
During the 9 days of celebration, many religious, folk, and musical events are held, but the most striking spectacle is the deadly bull race.

Burning Man, Black Rock Desert
Nevada, USA: last Monday in August, first Monday in September
This is a celebration of radical self-expression, which is attended by people who want to show their unusual creativity. Incredible worlds, strange sculptures, creative installations-all this is completely removed at the end of the holiday

Día de los Muertos
Mexico: November 2
Friends and relatives come together to pay tribute to their relatives and friends who have left this world through the complex traditions of cooking, art, and color.

Mud festival
In July, millions of people gather in Poryong, South Korea, to participate in the mud festival. For ten days there can be plenty of time to wallow in a sea of mud.

Chinese New year
Between January 21 and February 20
The largest Chinese holiday, with street processions, dragons, fireworks, carnival costumes, flowers, lanterns. At this time, the New year is celebrated everywhere in China, as well as in other Asian countries.

Vegetarian festival
Thailand the Vegetarian festival, also known as the Ngan kin je Festival, begins annually in October, on the first day of the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar. Despite the name, vegetarian food is not the Central theme of the festival, although local white-robed Buddhists adhere to a strict vegetarian diet for all 9 days of the festival. Some novices do amazing things: walk barefoot over glowing coals, climb ladders made of sharp blades, pierce various parts of the body, cut tongues with swords and knives.

Jumping over babies
Spain in the Spanish town of Castrillo de Murcia, children are taken care of in a rather peculiar way. Since the 17th century, a shocking annual ceremony has been held here in honor of the feast of the Body of the Lord. Babies born within a year are laid out on mattresses along the street, and members of the local fraternity Santísimo Sacramento de Minerva, dressed in yellow and red devil costumes (El Colacho), jump over them. Horror, and only!