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Festivals in February

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February Festival Articles

16 festival article(s) returned for February

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Article Title: The Spirit of Carnaval

Festival Name: Carnaval

Festival Country: Brazil

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

Carnaval can be smelt and breathed in the air of Rio de Janeiro. Everywhere you look at Carnaval time you can see a Carnaval smile, you can hear a Carnaval samba beat and you can feel the Carnaval spirit.

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Article Title: Tilcara, Argentina - Carnival

Festival Name: Carnival

Festival Country: Argentina

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

As the jungle road wound its way from Salta, vegetation seemed more and more exhausted the higher we got, changing from moist greenery to brushy shrubs until only cacti survived around the commanding heights of the Andes cordillera. What was lost in flora was gained in colour, as a rocky rainbow of ochre, violet, grey, olive and amber replaced the green of the leaves.

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Article Title: Carnevale Di Venezia: Baby It's Cold Outside

Festival Name: Carnival of Venice

Festival Country: Italy

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

My Venetian friends had invited me to come to Venice for Carnevale, saying I could use a studio apartment kept for family and friends. This was an offer I couldn't refuse, so I arranged my schedule to be in Venice the last week of Carnevale.

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Article Title: Carnival on Cozumel

Festival Name: Cozumel Carnival

Festival Country: Mexico

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

Cozumel is well known as one of the premier diving destinations in the world. But many do not know that Carnival Week on Cozumel is one of the most colorful and biggest celebrations in Mexico. It is a week of parades, dance, costumes, music and street carnivals.

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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 Forty Days of Lent

Festival Name: Lent

Festival Country: Worldwide

Festival Type(s): Religious

Lent begins at midnight on Shrove Tuesday. The first day of Lent is known as 'Ash Wednesday'. On this day the Bishop would bless the hair shirts which penitents were to wear during Lent.

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Article Title: Carnaval Time in Mazatlán

Festival Name: Mazatlán Carnival

Festival Country: Mexico

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

Visitors and locals scream, sing, shout and dance amid confetti and ribbons. Bands of all kinds play the infectious rhythms of the State of Sinaloa. And the food-oh, the food-camarones (shrimp) prepared in every way possible, washed down with ice cold Pacifico beer, for it's Carnaval Time, Mazatlán's biggest pachanga (fiesta).

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Article Title: The Road to N'awlens

Festival Name: New Orleans Mardi Gras

Festival Country: USA

Festival Type(s): Carnival, Mardi Gras, Party

What the hell are we doing in Georgia?' Kevin roared from the back seat of the rented '86 station wagon. We're driving from Florida to New Orleans...there's no Georgia involved in this trip!'

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Article Title: Sevens Heaven

Festival Name: New Zealand International Sevens

Festival Country: New Zealand

Festival Type(s): Sport - Football, Sport - Ball

As I approached the Westpac ticket office I became nervous. There were already hundreds of people queuing up outside the main gates, most of whom had booked their tickets in October or November last year. It seemed infeasible that I should be able to walk up to the counter and collect a ticket I'd paid for over the telephone yesterday morning.

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Article Title: Carnaval! Quebec City's Frozen February Frolics

Festival Name: Quebec Carnaval - Carnaval de Quebec

Festival Country: Canada

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

I'm sitting in a small cafe just off the Place Royale in Old Quebec sipping delicious cafe au lait and munching on a flaky croissant as snowflakes settle gently on the gathered snow mounds outside the door. The sub-freezing air outside frosts the cafe window and the wind blows in crisp gusts. Giant icicles hang from the eaves of centuries-old buildings along the narrow street. It's February--Carnaval time in Quebec.

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Article Title: The Quebec Winter Carnival - A Festival of Heritage and Family Fun

Festival Name: Quebec Winter Carnival

Festival Country: Canada

Festival Type(s): Winter, Carnival, Party

The dancing Bonhomie was my first introduction to the Quebec Winter Carnival, a blow out of fun, food and entertainment in the midst of the city's cold winter days. Held in the first part of February, it a fun way Quebecers outwit the harshness of winter, transforming the city into one massive outdoor party.

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Article Title: Reggae on the River Festival - Feel the Pressure Drop

Festival Name: Reggae on the River Festival

Festival Country: USA

Festival Type(s): Music - Reggae, Party

Hyped by some as the best Reggae and World Music Festival in the United States, we couldn't bear passing up the opportunity to hear tunes from countries such as Brazil, Chile, Cuba, England, Jamaica, the U.S., St. Lucia and Mexico.

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Article Title: Rhythm and Rainlessness Up in the Corner

Festival Name: Seattle Rhythm Festival

Festival Country: USA

Festival Type(s): Music - Varied, Music - World

A great day to lounge outside, run around in a fountain, dance to African drums, or take percussion classes...and all of the above were happening here at the Seattle Center.

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Article Title: Shrove Tuesday - Pancake Day!

Festival Name: Shrove Tuesday - Pancake Day

Festival Country: Ireland

Festival Type(s): Religious, Traditional, Cultural

Throughout the British Isles and in many European countries, the day before Ash Wednesday - Shrove Tuesday - is commonly known as Pancake Day. As children, we loved watching the Pancake Races. Usually, the contestants were housewives. Each of them carried a skillet which contained a large, very thin pancake. The idea was for the women to race to the finish line, tossing their pancakes as they ran. It was hilarious - especially when a stray pancake landed where it wasn't supposed to!

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Article Title: Sol-nal, Korean New Year's

Festival Name: Sol-nal - Korean New Year

Festival Country: South Korea

Festival Type(s): New Year

Thus, across the Land of the Morning Calm, New Year's Day will be celebrated twice-once according to international convention, and once according to the lunar calendar.

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Article Title: Venice Carnevale

Festival Name: Venice Carnevale

Festival Country: Italy

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

I went to Venice for two nights during Carnevale and stayed a week. The only reason I left was because it ended. I felt like a character in Ernest Hemmingway's "The Sun Also Rises", unable to decipher day from day or hour from hour.

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