Attend the Voodoo Festival in Benin, a vibrant celebration of traditional Vodun religion and culture
Attend the Woodstock / Pol'and'Rock Festival, one of Europe's largest free music festivals held in Poland
Experience the world's largest heavy metal festival in Wacken, Germany
Watch Mongolia's three manly sports festival in Ulaanbaatar
Three days of peace and music in 1969, in split screen; Scorsese edited.
Kolkata's clay-modeller quarter builds ten-armed goddesses all year, then floats them down the Hooghly.
The live-music capital: SXSW, bats under the Congress bridge and breakfast tacos.
The food capital of the Philippines, the Dinagyang festival and a river esplanade, opposite Guimaras island.
The illuminated Maharaja palace, the Dasara festival and the sandalwood and silk of the old bazaars.
The Ice and Snow Festival, whole palaces built of river ice, and Russian onion domes on the main street.
Edo-period merchant streets in the Japanese Alps, a morning market and the spring and autumn float festivals.
The city of trees in Tohoku, Date Masamune's castle hill, the Tanabata festival and gyutan beef tongue.
Chagall's birthplace, his house museum and the Slavianski Bazaar festival each July.
The Vitkovice ironworks turned festival ground and the Stodolni street of a hundred bars.
Five original Viking ships in the museum and the cathedral where Danish monarchs have been buried since 1400.
The original vine-bungee land diving.
Vast traditional reed dance ceremony.
Huge highland tribal gathering.
Masked cham dances in a dzong courtyard, ending with the unfurling of a giant embroidered thangka at dawn.
Watch Cusco resurrect the Inca Festival of the Sun — a full-day solstice spectacle at Sacsayhuamán
Feel the madness of a bareback horse race round a medieval square, 90 seconds of pure tribal passion
Second only to Rio: weeks of sequinned parades, the election of the Carnival Queen and street parties that run until dawn.
New Orleans's wild pre-Lenten carnival.
India's dazzling festival of lights.
Hundreds of hot-air balloons fill the dawn sky.
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