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Travel Tools >> World Holidays & Festivals
Festivals in 2010
Keep abreast of world events and celebrations with JourneyMart’s exhaustive list of holidays and festivals for the year 2010.
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If you live life on the edge, if you hover round the rim, if fringe is where you like to be, then the Edinburgh Fringe Festival is right for you.
Like they say, where there's a will, there’s a way! Eight groups gatecrashed the Edinburgh International Festival in 1947 - their determination to show their skills started a movement that spread like wildfire. Non-invitees to major festivals get their acts together at 35 Fringe Festivals worldwide. Be it Adelaide, Edmonton, Stroud or Sydney, the fringe is where you flaunt what you've got.
The last week of Lent, Holy Week begins on Palm Sunday, the day of Jesus triumphant entry into Jerusalem. Maundy Thursday, the night of the Last Supper is the eve of the Crucifixion on Good Friday, the day Jesus died on the Cross. Holy Week ends with Easter Sunday, the day of the resurrection of Christ.
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The festival of Nag Panchami is dedicated to the worship of snakes. It’s celebrated all across India at the peak of the monsoon- the time when snakes are most likely to be around- and takes the form of prayers to the snake god for protection from snakebite.
pecific pujas differ from one part of the country to another; in some places, live snakes are worshipped; in others, an image or a dough effigy of a snake is revered. The worship generally includes bathing a snake (or its idol) with milk, to the accompaniment of the music played by a snakecharmer. Needless to say this is one day when snakecharmers are in great demand!
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Wild, weird, wacky, wicked.......witty, wonderful, one of a kind brothers!
Irritating, infuriating, aggravating, exasperating.......dopey, delightful darling sisters!
What do we do with them....... and what would we do without them?
Celebrating the bond between brothers and sisters is the Hindu festival of Rakshabandhan. On a full moon day in the month of Sravana (August), sisters tie thread amulets on their brothers’ wrists, praying for their longevity and happiness. Brothers, in turn are bound by the delicate threads to cherish and safeguard their sisters. The fragile threads symbolize a deep abiding relationship - loving, tender, devoted, protective and indulgent.
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Beware August in Taiwan. When things go bump at night, it’s the ghosts and ghouls stepping out. The netherworld paroles its Taiwanese incumbents for a whole month, and that’s when things go bump in the dark.
Taiwan drowns in doom and gloom - an aura of fear and dread envelopes the island. People stay indoors, streets and malls are deserted, business takes a backseat and celebrations put on perma-pause because millions of souls are baying for blood! The dead have come back to settle their accounts - ignore them at your peril!
The worst are the ones in relative limbo - the ones without living kith or kin. They’re angry, they’re hungry and they are lonesome on their ownsome. They need to be wined and dined, entertained and amused, prayed to and placated, put off or paid off.
The Chung Yuan Festival is a time for departed souls (and living ones!). The living lay out supplies of food, incense and money (fake notes!) for the next year. Banquet tables sag with the weight of offerings of fish, fowl, meat, veggies, canned goods (for the long ride back to the underworld!) and alcoholic drinks (to ease the pain of parting)! Taiwanese operas perform non-stop (ever heard of a ghost going to sleep or taking a break while on a break?) for music soothes the beast (hopefully).
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