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28 festival article(s) returned for Bizarre Festivals

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Article Title: Art on Cows - Luxembourg

Festival Name: Art on Cows

Festival Country: Luxembourg

Festival Type(s): Art, Bizarre

The plaque on the base of the first cow offered little in the way of an explanation - Spledide by Christine Dumbsky. She was a metallic blue beast for the most part, with deep purple hooves and featured two topless pole dancers air brushed on her left flank.

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Article Title: Blobfest Brings 'B' Sci-Fi Horror Film Back to Life

Festival Name: Blobfest

Festival Country: USA

Festival Type(s): Film, Bizarre

Indescribable... Indestructible! Nothing Can Stop It!' So reads the tagline of the 1950s Sci-Fi classic, The Blob. And nothing seems to be stopping a festival that brings this kitschy film back to life.

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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: Camel Wrestling

Festival Name: Camel Wrestling Championship

Festival Country: Turkey

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

While the Spanish have bullfights, and the Italians cockfights, and the English go hunting with hounds, the Turks have camel wrestling.

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Article Title: The 10th Annual High Times Cannabis Cup

Festival Name: Cannabis Cup

Festival Country: Netherlands

Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Adult

The Cannabis Cup is a 5 day long celebration of the many wonderful things about marijuana. It's official purpose is to bring cannabis experts together so that they can 'taste' the latest varieties of marijuana and hashish, and vote for the one they like best, much as a panel of wine experts might gather to judge the year's wine offerings.

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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: Cheese Rolling in Gloucestershire

Festival Name: Cheese Rolling

Festival Country: England

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

Wherever it's origins it's hard to argue that cheese rolling is a sport for the outrageously courageous or at least the dangerously demented. Contestants in the Cooper's Hill event (between Gloucester, Stroud and Cheltenham in the Cotswolds) on the last Monday in May, stand precipitously at the top of a 300 yard hill, that maintains a gradient of two in one for the most part whilst a Master of Ceremonies counts them down.

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Article Title: Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling

Festival Name: Cheese Rolling

Festival Country: England

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

I never expected to spend my May Bank Holiday weekend as a participant in one of Europe's wackiest and most dangerous events, but there I was, perched atop a huge, steep, bumpy hill in Gloucestershire as an entrant in the third race of the day, about to throw myself down after a piece of rolling cheese.

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Article Title: D.B.Cooper Party

Festival Name: D.B.Cooper Party

Festival Country: USA

Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Fan Convention

D. B. Cooper is famous for one, single act - he hijacked a jet in 1971 and parachuted into the Washington night with $200,000 of ransom money tied to his waist

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Article Title: Game of the Bridge

Festival Name: Game of the Bridge

Festival Country: Italy

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

Rival teams from different quarters of Pisa fought for symbolic possession of a bridge over the Arno River. In those times, the games often degenerated into brutal and bloody man to man fighting.

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Article Title: Hadaka Matsuri - Naked Festival

Festival Name: Hadaka Matsuri - Naked Festival

Festival Country: Japan

Festival Type(s): Nude, Adult, Bizarre

Talk about male bonding! Have you ever gotten together with your buddies, stripped down to your thongs, and paraded around the neighborhood? In groups of 10-12 people at night? In mid-winter? No? Well, since I know you're dying to do this, I'll tell you about the Naked Festival in Saidaiji, Okayama prefecture.

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Article Title: The Holi Festival

Festival Name: Holi

Festival Country: India

Festival Type(s): Traditional, Cultural, Bizarre

Holi is all about colour, namely colour in the hair, colour on the face, colour on your clothes, colour all over the streets and colour just about anywhere else it'll stick.

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Article Title: Beer, Women and Huge Male Genitalia

Festival Name: Hounen Matsuri

Festival Country: Japan

Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Traditional, Adult

Not to be outdone, every March 15th, the small town of Komaki, Japan celebrates Hounen Matsuri. Matsuri means festival and Hounen, I'm fairly sure, means Big Wooden Penis. Okay, actually it means something much less interesting, but it SHOULD mean Big Wooden Penis, because there is, in fact, a Big Wooden Penis featured prominently throughout the festival.

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Article Title: Fertile Fun

Festival Name: Hounen Penis Fertility Festival

Festival Country: Japan

Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Traditional, Street Parade

Remember the joke about the three old ladies and the flasher? Two had a stroke, but the other one couldn't quite reach.... Well, the Hounen matsuri (festival), held annually at Komaki's Tagata-jinja shrine, provides plenty of opportunities for all present to get their hands on some outsized phalli.

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Article Title: Il carnevale d'Ivrea - Ivrea Carnival

Festival Name: Il carnevale d'Ivrea - Ivrea Carnival

Festival Country: Italy

Festival Type(s): Carnival, Bizarre, Party

That fight for liberty is recreated with the Battles of the Oranges, which substitute stones. Italy exceeds its production quota of oranges as agreed within the EEC (the European Economic Community) , so the excess needs to be destroyed (just to keep up the retail price). My co-citizens cooperate in the difficult path towards a unified Europe by helping to smash some oranges.

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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: Kanamara Matsuri Festival - Festival of the Steel Phallus

Festival Name: Kanamara Matsuri Festival - Festival of the Steel Phallus

Festival Country: Japan

Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Traditional, Adult

A large, pink phallus turns the corner and heads down the street. Sitting atop the shoulders of 10-12 men in bandanas, it bobs up and down to their rhythmic chants. Locals carve white radishes into images of the male reproductive system, preparing to auction them off at an afternoon banquet. Transvestites line the street; their red lipstick and hairy legs are no less a contrast than the grandmother who's licking on a lollypop that's in the shape of a....well, you can probably guess by now.

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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: SPAMARAMA

Festival Name: Pandemonious Potted Pork Festival, SPAMARAMA

Festival Country: USA

Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Food

Officially called the Pandemonious Potted Pork Festival, SPAMARAMA^TM draws 10,000 people with a highly refined sense of humor to one of the wackiest festivals in America

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Article Title: Festival of San Fermin

Festival Name: San Fermin

Festival Country: Spain

Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Traditional, Party

The Festival of San Fermin, first made famous outside of Spain by Ernest Hemingway in his novel 'The Sun Also Rises' (also known as 'Fiesta')

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Article Title: Three and a Half Ton of Bull

Festival Name: San Fermin - Running of the Bulls

Festival Country: Spain

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

My stomach was churning, my palms sticky, my heart smashing at the inside of my ribcage. I put on a brave face. Strange to think that I'd paid to be here.

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Article Title: The Wetter the Better - Thailand's Songkran Festival

Festival Name: Songkran Water Festival

Festival Country: Thailand

Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Traditional

Imagine this scene: scads of Clampett-like hillbilly families crammed into the back of pickup trucks, chugging along in bumper-to-bumper traffic and squirting water at other vehicles and pedestrians. The water warriors use squirt guns, super soakers, hoses, buckets, garbage cans and anything else they can get their hands on in order to disperse their liquid ammunition. Drive-by squirtings everywhere.

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Article Title: Thaipusam - Festival of Faith

Festival Name: Thaipusam

Festival Country: Malaysia

Festival Type(s): Traditional, Bizarre, Religious

As an avid attendee of matsuri (traditional festivals) across my adopted home country of Japan, I had thought there was little to touch them in terms of color, vivacity and raw animism. Until I went to Malaysia's Thaipusam festival, that is.

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Article Title: The Festivals of Valls: Humans Castles and Calçots

Festival Name: The Festivals of Valls

Festival Country: Spain

Festival Type(s): Traditional, Cultural, Bizarre

One of the loveliest aspects of Catalonia, or certainly one of the most striking, is its capacity for local celebration. The Catalans are good at blowing their trumpets or more correctly stated the "gralle", an oboe like traditional Catalan instrument used in all the local festivities including Sardanas, Human Castles (Castellers) and the town parades of giants and puppets.

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Article Title: World Body Painting Festival

Festival Name: World Body Painting Festival

Festival Country: Austria

Festival Type(s): Art, Bizarre

Colors fly in a weeklong event known as the Mecca for body painting. A quaint Austrian town plays host as artists from around the world come to feast their eyes on the wonders of nature and all who are naturally painted.

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Article Title: Roach Racin'

Festival Name: World Championship Cockroach Racing

Festival Country: Australia

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

Only in Australia would they celebrate their national holiday by racing cockroaches. Yes, that's right I'm talking about those pooey brown, hairy legged, skin crawling, under the fridge indulgers and lights out kitchen partiers that infest much of the land Down Under.

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Article Title: World Championship Kinetic Sculpture Race

Festival Name: World Championship Kinetic Sculpture Race

Festival Country: USA

Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Sport - Bizarre

World Championship Kinetic Sculpture Race - A kinetic sculpture is an imaginative, often wacky - but always ludicrous - contraption designed to travel along an obstacle course on land, through mud, and over deep harbor waters

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Article Title: World Pillow Fighting Championships

Festival Name: World Pillow Fighting Championships

Festival Country: USA

Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Sport - Bizarre

Anyone over the age of 14 can enter as long as they leave their maturity outside the arena. Competition begins by straddling a slippery wet pole suspended over a pit of mud.

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