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World’s Most Smashing Events & FestivalsThese sensational celebrations will change how you look at the world……

Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)Particularly celebrated in Mexico, the early November festival is dedicated on its first day to children whohave died and on the second day to adult relatives. Children are excited in the weeks running up to thefestival as coffin- and skeleton candy and paper mache skeleton puppets fill the shops and markets plus andall-night parties in cemeteries.

Loi KrathongJoin the crowds who stand with arms extended to send blazing lanterns drifting up into the pitch-black skytogether with the bad sprits of the world at the Loi Krathong festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The three-dayevent, scheduled around November’s full moon, also includes handcrafted banana-leaf candle holdersadorned with exotic flowers that light up the river.

Aboriginal Garma FestivalMake your way to one of the world’s most remote festivals to look out for painted bodies dance and a nightlyceremony during the second week of August. But to get down to the Aboriginal Garma Festival in Gulkula,Arnhem Land in northern Australia you need an invitation.The Garma ceremony is observed to share knowledge and culture, and opening people’s hearts to themessage of the land at Gulkula

International Flower FestivalWho don’t like the fragrance of a flower? So imagine a garden full of them, it would be a magnificent sight.The sensational International Flower Festival is held each year in the remotest town of Gangtok in Sikkim,India. Watch out the rare varieties of trees and ferns, gladioli, rhododendrons, Orchids, gladioli, roses, cacti,alpine plants, creepers, climbers, ferns, herbs and much more.

Bristol International Balloon FiestaThere is nothing quite like the sight of 130 enormous, multi-colored balloons slowly rising over the Britishcountryside. During an August weekend half a million people gather for the Bristol International BalloonFiesta.

Cologne CarnivalEverybody knows about Carnival in Rio but what about Carnival in Cologne, Germany? It’s the same idea:floats, screaming crowds and lively bands. But in Germany during this annual festival, is declared open at 11minutes past 11 on the 11th of November; you also get good German beer and men who have their ties cutin half.

It is one thing to see the world but it is another to experience it. Travelers looking for something unique oftentime their trips to see some of the world’s grooviest festivals and events. So, we have picked some of thefavorite events from the World’s Most Dazzling Festivals and Events.

Nisha Khan

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