Weirdest Festivals From Around The World
Spleenz
Published
08/31/2015
Arguably some of the weirdest festivals from around the world
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Boryeong Mud Festival: The annual mud festival takes place during the summer in Boryeong, South Korea. The festival started in 1998 and by 2007 attracted around 2.2 million visitors. It was originally started to promote cosmetics made from the mud trucked in from the nearby Boryeong mud flats. -
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Wife-Carrying Championships: During the summer in Sonkajärvi, Finland men must carry a wife (doesn’t have to be his own) around a special obstacle track in the fastest time. The wife must be at least 17 years old and have a minimum weight of 108 pounds. -
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Songkran Festival: A celebrated that takes place in Thailand as part of the traditional New Year from April 13-15 where people run the streets with pails of water and squirt guns. -
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Day of the Skulls: In La Paz, Bolivia families decorate the skulls of dead relatives with flowers, hats, and cigarettes. All for good luck. -
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Naki Sumo: In Japan, two sumo wrestlers stand across from one another holding an infant born the previous year, attempting to make the other’s child cry. If they don’t cry the referee will throw on a scary mask. -
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Golden Shears: New Zealand takes great pride in sheep wool, so every year a three-day competition is held in Masterton, New Zealand for the chance to win the golden shears. -
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Cheese Rolling: The Cooper’s Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake is an annual event held on the Spring Bank Holiday at Cooper’s Hill, near Gloucester in England. Competitors chase after a 9 lb round of Double Gloucester cheese and the first person over the finish line wins the cheese. -
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La Tomatina: A huge tomato fight that takes place on the last Wednesday of August in Buñol, Spain. The festival uses around 40 metric tons of tomatoes and the main rules are: tomatoes must be squished first to avoid injury and there is no ripping off t-shirts (boo). -
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Up Helly Aa: The name refers to any of a variety of fire festivals held in Shetland, Scotland during the winter. Locals generally form into squads who then march through the town or village in a variety of themed costumes. -
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El Colacho: A traditional Spanish holiday dating back to 1620 where a man wearing a devil’s costume leaps over the town’s babies born during the previous twelve months to cleanse them of evil spirits. -
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Noche de Rábanos: The Night of the Radishes takes place annually in Oaxaca, Mexico and begins with a competition where craftsmen carve oversized radishes into vivid forms. -
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Hadaka Matsuri: The “Naked Festival” takes place in Okayama, Japan with somewhere around 9,000 participates. The men wear loincloths and receive purification from temple water in hopes of gaining luck for the entire year. -
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Battle of the Oranges: The Battle of the Oranges is Italy’s largest food fight that takes place in Ivrea and consists of only oranges. -
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Rayne Frog Festival: Louisana’s annual frog festival celebrates everything froggy, including a frog parade, frog racing, and even the selection of a frog queen. -
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Monkey Buffet Festival: Top chefs come together to prepare a buffet of fruits and vegetables for the local monkey population.
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