The Berbena de Sant Joan (the Feast of St. John) is a wild celebration in Spain, particularly in Barcelona--and the Catalans go all-out with a firework-filled night of reveling.
300 elephants a mile from buffet tables loaded with their favorite foods: Some call it a parade, I experienced something far more exhilarating.
The Coachella Music and Arts Festival is a festival that takes place the last weekend in April in a lush polo fields surrounded by the mountains and desert of the Coachella Valley. It features three days of music and art with 5 stages and around 150 bands
In this beautiful festival, the people of Thailand create their own starry sky.
Rising Angolan literary star Ondjaki talks about his work, a typical Angolan library experience, and, for a moment, politics, at the recent writers festival in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Every year in February a Brasilian Carnaval is organised in Groningen. Nob it's not the real 'Rio de Janairo' - deal but still...
In February it is still winter in the Netherlands, temperatures can drop below zero.
It's fantastic.So go.
Baisakhi Festival marks joy and merry making which falls in second week of April and brings the entire country together.
Sometime described as the Vatican of Laos, That Luang is the holy place. The yearly festival held in its honour certainly is worth a detour!
I was only going to stay in Coffee Bay, South Africa for a couple of days, but the Bomvu Drum Festival approached....