Top 2011 US Summer Music Festivals

by Maggie Voelker Americas
Music Festival

At one time or another, most of you can relate to what I’m feeling this very second—trapped to my desk at work, facing a blank, windowless wall—I want out! This is exactly the feeling that has me counting the seconds to summer every year—in other words, music festival season.
Each spring my seven college roommates and [...]

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Getting Ready For Barbados’ Crop Over Festival

by Steph Wood Event and Festival

In travel writing, it’s all too easy to represent the best things you can do with your time, those most memorable experiences, as the ‘best’ the place has to offer. The typical travel article will paint a picture of a place at festival time as some kind of fact of life thing. As if everyone [...]

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The Secret Chinese Restaurant In Frankfurt

by Harry Dining Out

The Frankfurt Book Fair happens every year in October, and if you are a seasoned campaigner at this event, or any other of the international trade shows the massive complex hosts every year, then finding a good place to eat in the evening is something of a lottery. Most hotel bars and restaurants will start [...]

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Preparing for Overseas Festivals

by Laura Wilkins Europe

Overseas music festivals are becoming increasingly popular, creating blending a relaxing holiday with the great vibe of outdoor music events.
Whatever your musical preferences, there’s an event to suit your taste. 2011 sees DJs from all over the world appearing at Sensation in Amsterdam, stunning orchestral delights at the Rossini Opera Festival in Italy and the [...]

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The ‘Tenerife Carnaval’ – Celebrate in Style!

by Laura Wilkins Europe

This week is the start of one of Tenerife’s most anticipated events of the year – ‘Tenerife Carnaval’!
With the colourful and flamboyant parades, comical outfits and unconventional events, this annual carnival attracts enormous crowds, with festivities stretching on for days. Sovereign, a luxury Tenerife holidays provider, has put together this guide to the [...]

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Mount Hagan Cultural Festival – a Vibrant Display of Traditional Ethnicity

by Hui Ling Australasia and Oceania
Thumbnail image for Mount Hagan Cultural Festival – a Vibrant Display of Traditional Ethnicity Mount Hagan Cultural Festival - Papua New Guinea

If you want to see tribes (at least 50 of them), the Mount Hagan Cultural Festival which was held every August in Western Highlands Province should be a cultural event or something you must not miss. No worries, no cannibalism and no make do with corpse, but an event with various musical performances, cultural demonstrations [...]

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Naga Panchami

by Gigi Asia
Thumbnail image for Naga Panchami Naga Panchami Festival Day in India

If you are not afraid of snake, especially cobras and enjoy the flute-playing snake charmers perform and the parade of worshippers with cobra-pots on their heads, then you ought to be in India during the Naga Panchami festival day.
Naga Panchami is held in July or August, in the fifth day of the moonlit fortnight of [...]

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Throwing Oranges To Find Love?

by Mun Yee Asia

Are you crazy? In your mind you might say what a waste! But that is what happened during Chap Goh Mei!
It is true and it happens yearly in Southeast Asia countries, especially in an island in Malaysia known as Penang, the father of where the practice was started. Isn’t it strange it was not passed [...]

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My Lantern Moon Cake and My Love to Places of Interest

by Mun Yee Asia
Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, Moon Cake Festival, Zhong Qiu Jie

Ever wondered how the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival (also known as Moon Cake Festival or Zhong Qiu Jie) likes? I hope the following screen shots and photos, which were taken at a celebration event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia will give you some ideas and the feel of what it is!

In countries like Hong Kong, Malaysia and [...]

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Dubai Shopping Festival

by Mun Yee Event and Festival

Are you looking for some great bargain shopping or perhaps great entertainment for free at one of the world’s most seductive holiday destinations? If so, Dubai Shopping Festival, which is held annually from January to March in the City of Dubai might appeal to you. This ‘Shopping until you drop…’ festival has attracted 3 million [...]

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