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
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.
Second only to Rio: weeks of sequinned parades, the election of the Carnival Queen and street parties that run until dawn.
India's dazzling festival of lights.
New Orleans's wild pre-Lenten carnival.
Hundreds of hot-air balloons fill the dawn sky.
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