El Colacho (Baby jumping) Festival

Date: Middle of June after the feast of Corpus Christi, a Christian holiday.

Place: Small Spanish town of Castrill de Murcia near Burgos

This traditional festival is known as a dangerous festival in the world for infants that held in the middle of June in a  small Spanish town of Castrill de Murcia near Burgos. there is another name for this festivals as baby-jumping or devil's jump festival as part of its Corpus Christi celebrate  This Spanish traditional festivals take place annually to celebrate the Catholic feast of Coropus Christi.

A man dressed with a devil cloths in red or yellow color and jump over infants who lie on mattresses in the street that born during previous year ( 12 months). Meanwhile, there have been no report about baby injuries during festivals yet but, it's considered  as a riskiest festival in the world.

The people believe with jumping the devil, the infants will be clean of the original sin and will protected from all disease  illness, evil spirits and also will have a safe life.

This festival is the the culmination of a four-day celebration following the feast of Corpus Christi, a Christian holiday.

Goat tossing festival in Spain

Date: 24 January

Place: Manganeses de la Polvorosa, Spain

In the small town in north western Spain, Manganeses de la Polvorosa, you will see an annual tradition festival named Goat tossing.

In this festival, a group of men threw a live goat from the window of church with 50 feet high and  below, many people were catching  the flying goat with a canvas sheet.

Many people in traditional dress  wake up early to see unusual events, No one knows and confirmed  when and how this ceremony started. but all of  villagers believe there is a story behind this event.

There are some stories about this festival. One of them referred to 18th century  when a priest donated his goat milk to a needy and poor family, after a while, the goat fell from tower of church but the poor villagers saved his goat miraculously with a blanket.

Another story was born when a wily goat went up to the belfry to eat priest food but the goat was frightened of priest. Suddenly the goat fell down and disappeared. it's not more important for death of this animal, if the goat survives or not, the fiesta begins through small village.

N’cwala Festival Zambian

Date: 24th February

place: Zambia's Eastern Provin

At first, it's better to  have a glance to Zambia. Zambia is in Southern Africa, east of Angola with 8 neighbors (Angola, Botswana,Namibia,  Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique,  Tanzania, and Democratic Republic of Congo) with 14,309000 . Dance and music is the main part of Zambian life and they use drum and drumming plays in most common traditional festival, ceremonies, celebrations and community communication.

The Ngoni people celebrate the fist harvest of their products in each year that named  N'cwala ceremony. This festival held each year in a village named Mutenguleni that 12 local chiefs and their best dancer come as group and present their warrior dance to the chief. The dancer's cloths should be from traditional like animals fur and feathers. The chief will choose the best group of dancer in the end of festival. Also, the people feast on beef and corn with music.

 The Paramount participate in this festival with dancing. As a symbol of first harvest food, the chief drinks the cow blood killed at the N'cwala for their people to start harvesting.

Battle of the Oranges in Ivrea, Italy

Date: 9 - 12 Feb 2013                 Place: Centro storico And Borghetto, Ivrea in Italy

One of the favorite and popular festivals in Italy is orange fighting that named " Battle of the Oranges " . Every February, you can see this happy festival in small town Ivrea in Italy. There is no correct  and clear information about origin of this ceremony.

 The public story about this festival refers to defense against a cruel that come to rape a young rural. Instead of him, the young women was capture by this cruel and the people struggle with simple thing like stone  and arrest him and burnt his place.  Every year in February moon, they gather to remember this liberation with this festival. they divided to 9 group and fight to the ancient cart as a sample  of cruel and orange as a primary weapon.

this festival held 3 days in the small town Ivrea in Italy.

Sunrise Festival in UK

Place: UK

Date:   Thursday 30th of May to Sunday 2nd of June 2013

This four day splendid event awaits you in the astonishing beauties of Sometset's rolling green hills.

The festival does not aim just to focus on musical entertainments but rather on mankind creativity potentials and abilities, presenting all kinds of innovative, inspiring activities including lectures and workshops to provide the nations with the beneficial spirit of self confidence, cooperation and integrity to create the best possible grounds for nations in which strength and creativity play an important role.

Sunrise's big ambition is to introduce innovative thoughts in permaculture and so sunrise proudly host many individuals with creative ecological ideas to be inspired by the nations to grow self-awareness and self-steem.

We strongly believe in the capabilities of individuals with any kind of education level.

And to gain all of these why not making an event. So each year we are here to admire initiators and create a good memory in your minds, we partly achieve our goals if we  could at least bring a smile to your faces.

Independence Day Festival

Independence Day or “Fourth of July”, is the federal holiday in United States celebrating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 from Great Britain. This holiday is celebrated with fireworks, ceremonies, parades, barbecues, carnivals, fairs, picnics, concerts, baseball, family reunions, and political speeches, in addition to various other public and private events celebrating the history, government, and traditions of the United States. Independence Day is the national day of the United States.

Independence Day is United States national holiday and patriotic displays. Independence Day celebrations often take place outdoors. Independence Day is a federal holiday, so all non-essential federal institutions (like the postal service and federal courts) are closed on that day. Many politicians make it a point on this day to appear at a public event to praise the nation's heritage, laws, history, society, and people.

Families often celebrate Independence Day by hosting or attending a picnic or barbecue and take advantage of the day off and, in some years, long weekend to gather with relatives. Decorations (e.g., streamers, balloons, and clothing) are generally colored red, white, and blue, the colors of the American. Parades are often in the morning, while fireworks displays occur in the evening at such places as parks, fairgrounds, or town squares.

Lantern FestivaL

The Lantern Festival in China celebrated on the 15th day of the first month in their lunar calendar making it the last day of the new year celebration, it is also known as Yuanxiao Festival or Shangyuan Festival; Chap Goh Meh Festival in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore; Yuen Siu Festival in Hong Kong, Tết Thượng Nguyên or Tết Nguyên Tiêu in Vietnam; and,Koshōgatsu in Japan.

During this festival hundreds of paper lanterns with solve riddles on lanterns carried by children to temples, they believe the gods in heaven would get their massages and grant their wishes become true; it is an official end to chines New Year celebration.

However, it should not be mistaken with Mid-autumn festival also known as “Lantern Festival” being held in some countries like Malaysia.
In this day people get together and perform series of traditional activities they believe bring good fortune for them. and they believe that it will bring a better future and a better faith for them.

This festival is one of the most beautiful and majestic celebration world wide, the view of colorful lanterns and the scene they make especially at night is amazing and eye catching. There more and more visitors and tourist come to watch and experience this beauty with their own eyes.

Saint Patrick's Day

Feast of Saint Patrick or better known as Saint Patrick’s Day celebrated in Ireland originally and around the world by Irish descent especially in Britain, Canada, the United States, Argentina, Australia and New Zealand  is a traditional, cultural and religious holiday on 17 march every year. It has its name after Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. It has over 300 years of history observed by Catholic Church, Anglican Communion, Orthodox and Lutheran Church. It is commemorates the arrival of Christianity in Ireland by Saint Patrick, and also is a celebration of Irish traditions and heritage.

Known as the green festival, the traditions in this day involve public parades, carnivals and festivals by wearing green costumes or shamrocks. People also attend church services, but most of the festival is about being unrestricted on eating and drinking alcohol especially Irish beer and Whiskey.

Saint Patrick's Day is a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Newfoundland and Labrador and Montserrat. in this day people take it easy on their eating manner and try to have fun and find new friends and party all day.

Oktoberfest Festival - Germany

Sept. 21 to Oct. 6 


Oktoberfest, festival of celebrating beer is a 16 day festival held in Munich, Bavaria, Germany every year. It starts from late September to first weekend of October and is one of the most famous festivals in Germany and also known as largest fair in the world.

More than 6 million people from all over the globe attend the festival every year. This tradition has over 200 years of history since 1810, and considered as a traditional and important cultural event in Germany.

This festival begins with A 12 gun salute and the tapping of first Oktoberfest beer by Munich’s Mayer and then Minister of Bavaria.

Visitors wear the Oktoberfest Bavarian hats (Tirolerhüte), which contain a tuft of goat hair. In Germany, goat hair is highly valued and prized, making it one of the most expensive objects for sale. The more tufts of goat hair on your hat, the wealthier you are considered to be. But today and thanks to technology and Chinese, the cheap goat hair can be found and used.

Oktoberfest is a place for food lovers also, during this mostly all beer drinking festival there are lots of foods and other programs and parties held in order to provide an amazing experience for visitors and tourists

Nowruz

Nowruz is Persian’s most important festival, its Iranian New year celebration that begins on the first day of spring and the beginning of the year in the Iranian calendar. It is celebrated on the day of the astronomical Northward equinox, which usually occurs on March 21 or the previous/following day depending on where it is observed

Although Nowruz is celebrated and observed by Iranian peoples it is also celebrated in related cultural continent and has spread in many other parts of the world, including parts of Central Asia, Caucasus, South Asia, Northwestern China, the Crimea and some groups in the Balkans.

Nowruz is a Zoroastrian festival an ancient Persian festival and the holiest of them in which people celebrate the rebirth of nature and therefore a new beginning of life.

Nowruz holidays is 3 to 6 days long, in these days families get together and clean their homes and perform traditional activities like making “Haft seen” which they made a table with 7 food for prosperity and wellness.

Nowruz is the symbol of unity of humans and the earth and an appreciation of life, that after the harsh winter the dead nature comes back to life and reminding humans that life is going on and there is always a chance to start again.

Gion Matsuri Festival

Gion Matsuri is the largest Kyoto festival that takes one month long…yes you read it right, one month festival! It is one of the most famous feasts in Japan. The festival has music and dance and in the center and most important event is the Parade of Yamaboko Junko on middle of July.

The festival named after Kyoto’s Gion district, this area prepares itself for the massive parade in its streets causing heavy traffic jam on three nights before the great parade. These nights called yioyama, yioyioyama and yioyioyioyama !!!! from July 14 to July 16.

Streets are full of colorful stalls and lights selling traditional and local food and Japanese traditional sweets. Girls dressed in their summer kimonos “Yukata” walking gently selling traditional handcrafts like purses and paper fans.

In this festival some of Kyoto families announce an open house so the visitors can exhibit the family heirlooms or folding screen festival, that’s a great opportunity for tourists and travelers to observe the Japanese traditions.