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Festivals in August - 23 Articles

Article Title: London's Calypso Carnival

Festival Name: Notting Hill Carnival

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): Carnival, Street Parade, Party

But all that changes on the August bank holiday weekend as the Notting Hill Carnival - Europe's largest street party and second only in the world to Rio's Carnaval - swings and sways its way into W11.

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Article Title: La Tomatina - The World's Biggest Food Fight

Festival Name: La Tomatina

Festival Country: Spain

Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Party, Traditional

As history spells it out, what began in 1944 as a simple tomato fight between a group of friends in the town's main square - the Plaza del Pueblo - has turned into arguably the worlds largest food fight. Actually, there is very little to argue about.

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Article Title: Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Festival Name: Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Festival Country: Scotland

Festival Type(s): Fringe, Performing Art, Comedy

The Fringe is an immense gathering of artists, musicians, dancers and actors coming from over 40 countries to perform in over 250 venues. Search for a show on the Fringe website and you will have to sift through a mere 1,909 shows. It would take five years, three months, and 25 days to see every performance in the Fringe 2005 back to back.

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Article Title: Hooray For The Fringe! Your Fringe lowdown...

Festival Name: Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Festival Country: Scotland

Festival Type(s): Fringe, Comedy, Performing Art

To anyone except the actor, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival is annual paradise. For five frantic weeks the elegant seaside city of Edinburgh resigns itself to theatrical hijack. From all corners of the globe dramatic and musical troupes descend on Scotland's capital to tempt, cajole, and dazzle the spectator into parting with their pounds: in exchange for laughter, tears, derision, and amusement.

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Article Title: The Art of Burning Man

Festival Name: Burning Man

Festival Country: USA

Festival Type(s): Art, Performing Art, Bizarre

Black Rock City, as the town centered around Burning Man is known, is now the third largest city in Nevada, although it exists for only one week a year. It is also perhaps one of the best-designed cities in the world. It works wonderfully. It's safe enough for women to walk around naked. It's chock full of fantastic and real art. Transportation is primarily via bicycle. It's got a world-class view of a unique wilderness. Consumption is low and creation is high.

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Article Title: World Sauna Championships

Festival Name: World Sauna Championships

Festival Country: Finland

Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Sport - Bizarre

The best competitions make leisure into sport, like turning an afternoon of watching flicks into a movie marathon. In Finland, where there are 1.5 million saunas for 5 million people, organizations of World Sauna Championships did just that with the first competition in 1999.

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Article Title: Boun Khao Padabdin

Festival Name: Boun Khao Padabdin

Festival Country: Laos

Festival Type(s): Traditional, Religious, Cultural

The monk is up a ladder hanging bunting. "What's the bunting for?" I ask. He explains that August 20th is Boun Khao Padabdin, the day when Laotians honour their ancestors and bring offerings to the temple. "Come along," he says.

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Article Title: Hot August Nights

Festival Name: Hot August Nights

Festival Country: USA

Festival Type(s): Automobile

Pull on your bobby sox, step into your saddle shoes, roll up those jeans and head on over to Reno, Nevada the first week in August! Every year, Reno hosts the biggest and best of the classic car shows in the country, Hot August Nights

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Article Title: Eros Fest NW

Festival Name: Eros Fest NW

Festival Country: USA

Festival Type(s): Adult, Nude, Convention

Eros Fest NW is one of the few festivals all about sex. Not seedy, creepy sex, but distinctively a festival which seeks to open channels for the curious, as well as entertain the sexually adventurous and the outright bold.

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Article Title: One Love Festival

Festival Name: One Love Festival

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): Music - Reggae, Party

One Love Festival celebrates the anniversary of Bob Marley's infamous 1978 One Love concert and offers you four days and nights of pure reggae love

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Article Title: Bilbao's Big Week

Festival Name: Aste Nagusia Bilbao

Festival Country: Spain

Festival Type(s): Music - Traditional, Dance - Latin, Party

For ten days the city centre is full to bursting with people, young and old, enjoying a mix of traditional Basque music, dance and sports (anyone for a spot of stone-lifting or log-chopping?) and more modern spectacles, fuelled by regular helpings of food and wine from the many txosnas (large tents) that line the main streets.

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Article Title: Five a Side at the Placencia Country Fest

Festival Name: Placencia Country Fest

Festival Country: Belize

Festival Type(s): Local, Community, Fair

The action was fierce. A player came blazing by, setting up a shot for goal, a defender in hot pursuit. The soccer ball screamed toward the goal, only to be intercepted by......a palm tree.

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Article Title: Scarlett Does Québec

Festival Name: New France Festival - Les Fetes de la Nouvelle France

Festival Country: Canada

Festival Type(s): Historical, Cultural

The buildings in the old part of Québec City resembled a collection of treasured jewels surrounded by ancient walls and crowned by the beautiful Fairmont Le Château Frontenac Hotel. Looking down on the city from the top of the funicular, a reasonable alternative from the very long and straight-up stairway called 'Heart Attack', I was surprised by the variety of colors of the copper roofs.

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Article Title: New France Festival Transports Visitors Back in Time

Festival Name: New France Festival - Les Fetes de la Nouvelle France

Festival Country: Canada

Festival Type(s): Historical, Cultural

As I make my way down a crowded narrow street away from the Place Royale in Old Quebec, a young girl, dressed as a scullery maid, her blouse smeared with dirt, looks up shyly at me from the street corner much as she might have done in 18th-Century Quebec. Not far from her, two couples, dressed in elegant brocades, chat, the husband of second couple gently kissing the hand of the first woman with a hardy 'Enchanté.' If I didn't know better, I'd have sworn I had been transported back in time to the beginnings of this beautiful city. But here I am standing amidst crowds of animated people, many of whom are dressed in 17th and 18th-century costumes. For this is Quebec's renowned Les Fetes de la Nouvelle France, or New France Festival.

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Article Title: Russian Around Aarhus

Festival Name: Ship Ahoy Festival

Festival Country: Denmark

Festival Type(s): Maritime, Historical, Re-enactments

Bellowing out his command loudly in Russian from right behind my ear, the captain sharply snaps me from my momentary lull in the baking Baltic sun.

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Article Title: Bathtubs on the River

Festival Name: International Regatta of Bathtubs - La Regate des Baignoires

Festival Country: Belgium

Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Sport - Bizarre

The hot sun of a mid-August day beats down on a motley flotilla as it makes it way down the River Meuse through the town of Dinant, Belgium. One of Europe's lesser-known festivals, La Regate des Baignoires, the International Regatta of Bathtubs, was, as the local tourist board cheerfully admits, a promotional stunt dreamed up to bring visitors to this sliver of a town wedged between steeps cliffs and the Meuse River about an hour from Brussels.

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Article Title: The Airy Charm of Kiteflight

Festival Name: International Kite Festival

Festival Country: USA

Festival Type(s): Kite

Held annually on the 26 mile stretch of Long Beach, Washington, the International Kite Festival is beholden to no one. You don't have to pay to get in, you can bring your own little trash bag kite and fly it on a spool of fishing line amid the behemoths, and everyone is welcome.

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Article Title: Humungus Fungus Festival - Crystal Falls, Michigan

Festival Name: Humungus Fungus Festival

Festival Country: USA

Festival Type(s): Fair, Harvest

What is a Humungus Fungus you ask? Several years ago a "humungus fungus" (a GIGANTIC mushroom) was discovered in the Crystal Falls area. It weighs roughly 11 tons and covers 37 acres.

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Article Title: Charleville Camel, Donkey and Yabbie Race Festival

Festival Name: Charleville Camel, Donkey and Yabbie Race Festival

Festival Country: Australia

Festival Type(s): Sport - Bizarre, Bizarre, Party

Whilst travelling through Central Queensland we heard of the upcoming Charleville Camel, Donkey and Yabbie Race Festival and felt we just had to be there. We made a dash to Charleville risking life and limb, travelling at night through the kangaroo infested outback.

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Article Title: Eisa, Eisa!

Festival Name: Eisa Festival

Festival Country: Japan

Festival Type(s): Cultural, Traditional

The Eisa festival, held at the conclusion of Obon in late August, marks the end of summer and is the last big festival of the year. It is a time of great celebration and the time to bid farewell to the spirits of ancestors who have come back to earth for Obon.

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Article Title: In the 'Spirit' of Welcome

Festival Name: Obon

Festival Country: Japan

Festival Type(s): Cultural, Traditional

The Japanese have long respected their elders who are held in high esteem for their wisdom. They bestow many honors upon them both before and after death. Okinawans return to their family homes for obon, some of them traveling thousands of miles.

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Article Title: Skin Games - The Nude Olympics

Festival Name: Nude Olympics

Festival Country: USA

Festival Type(s): Nude, Naturist, Adult

There are no sponsors, no endorsements and no Life magazine exposes. This is the third annual Nude Olympics we're talking about and, like the contestants themselves, this event has been stripped of all trappings.

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Article Title: King of the Hill in Kazakhstan

Festival Name: Khan Tengri Mountain Festival

Festival Country: Kazakhstan

Festival Type(s): Sport - Mountaineering, Sport - Extreme

In the field of X-treme competitions, Hawaii's Ironman and Alaska's Iditarod strike awe into the hearts of competitors and spectators alike. In a remote corner of a remote country, a new race goes beyond X-treme. Rick Hudson reports.

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