5 Strangest Festivals From Around the World
Here is a list 5 WTF Events From Around the World.
The ‘Monkey Buffet Festival ‘ is held annually in Lopburi, Thailand. In 2007, the festival included giving fruits and vegetables to the local monkey population of 2,000 in Lopburi Province north of Bangkok. Sometimes people involved are prank the monkeys by freezing bananas and other fruits in blocks of ice.
The festival was described as one of the strangest festivals by London’s Guardian newspaper along with Spain’s baby-jumping festival.
02. Songkran Water Festival
Another Thailand one. Basically the biggest water fight in the world. If you like painted war elephants cleaning dirty hippies, this one’s for you.
03. Antzar Eguna
The Day of the Geese, also known as Antzar Eguna, is a competition held as part of the San Antolín festival in the Basque fishing-town of Lekeitio, in which participants attempt to decapitate a goose suspended on a rope above the town harbor.
Step one: cover a goose in grease.
Step two: suspend it on a rope above the harbour
Step three: men jump from boats, grab the goose, and try to separate it’s head from it’s body. Whoever can do it gets to keep the goose. This is likely the least efficient way to get a goose that I can think of.
04. Boryeong Mud Festival
The Boryeong Mud Festival is an annual festival which takes place during the summer in Boryeong, a town around 200 km south of Seoul, South Korea. The first Mud Festival was staged in 1998 and, by 2007, the festival attracted 2.2 million visitors to Boryeong.
The mud is taken from the Boryeong mud flats, and trucked to the Daecheon beach area, where it is used as the centrepiece of the ‘Mud Experience Land’. The mud is considered rich in minerals and used to manufacture cosmetics. The festival was originally conceived as a marketing vehicle for Boryeong mud cosmetics.
The mud is taken from the Boryeong mud flats, and trucked to the Daecheon beach area, where it is used as the centrepiece of the ‘Mud Experience Land’. The mud is considered rich in minerals and used to manufacture cosmetics. The festival was originally conceived as a marketing vehicle for Boryeong mud cosmetics.
05. Cascamorras
The Fiesta de Cascamorras is a festival that takes place in the towns of Guadix and Baza in the province of Granada, Spain, annually on September 6. The two towns fight for possession of a statue of the Virgen de la Piedad and the participants the object cover themselves in black grease & paint. Spain has the best festivals, cause they’re mostly built on flimsy religious pretext and are an excuse to cover yourself in filth.
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