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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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


Article Title: Santa Run
Festival Name: Santarun
Festival Country: Wales
Festival Type(s): Sport - Bizarre, Christmas
Surreal was not the right word. The sea of crimson that stretched behind me deserved something more than that. This was more of a crazed hallucinogenic trip, a dream that I could wake up from at any second. This was either the work of a madman or a genius. But, as they say, 'when in Rome...'


Article Title: Siena Palio
Festival Name: Siena Palio
Festival Country: Italy
Festival Type(s): Sport - Equestrian, Sport - Bizarre, Traditional
It was Palio, the biggest event in a Sienese year. When the local contrada's (districts) take to the track with their finest horses and race for a coveted silk banner. When horses become Gods, passions are high and the square fills with the excitement of a race for glory.


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.


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


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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Vanuatu


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England


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Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Japan


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