Marking the end of the dry season, Songkran is also known as Thailand Water Festival or Thai New Year. It celebrates the beginning of a new flourishing rainy season that will bring harvest and lower ...

Holi Festival, also called Shigmo in Goa, brings together thousands and even tens of thousands of people to the streets to have fun and enjoy color at the Holi parties. The Festival of Colours is an ...

The Water-Splashing Festival far and wide reflects the Dai nationality’s traditions—folk worship, dance, music, food, costume and water culture. Dai ethnic minority of Xishuangbanna Prefecture holds ...

Christmas Traditions in Spain. A new holiday tradition has also been brought from the popular culture of other countries—Santa Claus, known in Spain as Papá Noel, brings gifts for children to open on ...

Almost every other region in Chile boasts its own grape variety and fall harvest marks vendimias season stretching from late February up to early May. The festivals offer an endless variety of the ...

Shigmo Festival, or Shigmotsav, is one of Goa's most vibrant Hindu celebrations. It blends the spirit of Holi and carnival into a grand spring festival. Held annually in March during the Phalguna ...

Annually, at the end of the school year, in towns of all sizes all over Denmark, young people ride in open-backed trucks. Youngsters are drinking beer, dancing, jumping into fountains, and partying.