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10 Most Bizarre Festivals

Around the World

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GLOUCESTER CHEESE ROLL

For at least 200 years localsfrom the village of Brockworthtry to catch the cheese whileits rolling down the CoopersHill, near Gloucester, England.

No one ever managed to dothat, but the tradition is veryinteresting not just for locals,but for the people all aroundthe world as well, so its still

held in late May every year.Adventurers from all continentsgo there to get some bruises,scrapes, cuts and other injuries,but the one who will pass the

finish line first will get a DoubleGloucester Cheese made with


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PUSHKAR CAMEL FAIR

Pushkar is a little deserttown in the state ofRajasthan, India, which hostover 50,000 camels every

November, depending onthe moon cycle. Camelowners from the wholecountry come to the fair todo some weird things withtheir camels. The animals

are shaved, dressed up,entered into beautycontests, paraded, raced,and finally, traded. Theamazing numbers of

200,000 people who appearon the festival ever ear


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LA TOMATINA FESTIVAL

La Tomatina Festival is heldevery fourth Wednesday ofAugust in Bunol, nearValencia in Spain. Its theworlds biggest food fight. It

started in 1940s, but thereasons why it began arestill unknown. There aresome theories that it was aschool food fight that has

been adopted by the locals;it was a joke on a really badartist, or it started whenpeople threw it on localpoliticians. Whatsoever,people liked it and the

traditions still remains


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CARNEVALE DI IVREA

Italians have a huge food fight, too. It starts peacefully, withred hats selling after which it continues with parades topiazzas, and then, the Scarli, a tall pole covered with driedbranches, becomes the biggest victim of the food fight withoranges. Allegedly, it started back in 1194 when a local

heroine started throwing oranges to the Roman EmperorFrederick of Swabia. Its held in Ivrea, a little town near Turin.


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ENCIERRO

The little town of Pamplona is world wide known justbecause of the celebration day of San Fermin. Encierro is arace in which raged bulls run after people in the tinystreets of the town. Anyone can participate; the onlycondition is to wear something red, in order to rage thebull. Allegedly, it all started in 14th century, when bullmarketers tried to speed up the process of bringing theanimals to the market. It has become very popular, so nowpeople from all around the globe come to Pamplona just to

experience this strange but exciting event.


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KILA RAIPUR RURAL OLYMPICS

There are regular OlympicGames in winter andsummer, there are Olympicsfor sportsmen and womenwith handicap, but in last six

decades theres sportsfestival for weird disciplines.Animals are racing all thetime, but there are alsosportsmen, who pull cars

with their teeth or ears, orride bicycle with burningtyre. An amazing number of4000 sportsmen takeparticipation, while thereare over one millionspectators. Its held every


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CHEUNG CHAU BUN FESTIVAL

The Cheung ChauBun Festival is held everyyear in Hong Kong.Actually, its acompetition in which the

racers run to the top ofthe 60 feet tall tower.While getting there, theirnext task is to throw offas much plastic buns as

possible. The race often isviolent, but thatsallowed, however. In 1978the tower crashed while30 racers were injured. Itwas banned for a long

time before being


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AIR GUITAR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

Weird Finns have a lot of strange festivals, but this so calledworld championship in playing air guitar is too much. We all

know some mega popular metal band from Finland, so theydecided to make a festival of their folklore. They say thatthis event was organized in order to promote the world peace,because if all the people were playing an air guitar, therewould be nobody to make wars. Whatsoever, they have a

reason to hold the weird event


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CALAVERAS COUNTY FAIR

AND FROG JUMP JUBILEE

This is definitely the worlds biggest frog jumping contest. Thefair was held for the first time in 1893, but the frogcompetitions started in 1928. The frog trainers have toparticipate on a number of competitions during the whole yearin order to gain an invitation for this event. In three days in May

every year thousands of frogs show their skills. The worldrecord was set in 1986 by Rosie the Ribiter with a jump of 21feet and 5.75 inches. Impressive!


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Until recently, an annual festivalwas held in Germany in which agoose was tied by its feet to a postand then clubbed by the local menuntil its head came off. As a resultof complaints from animal rightsactivists, the festival-goers now hita goose which has previously beenkilled. A very similar event occurs

in Spain (surprise surprise) everyyear in which a man hangs fromthe goose until the head comesoff. Again the goose is killed prior

to the event which dates back 350years. The Spanish festival is

Goose Clubbing Festival

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