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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.


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: International Dragon Boat Racing
Festival Country: Malaysia
Festival Type(s): Dragon Boat, Sport - Water, National
The setting is glorious for this, the 30th annual International Dragon Boat Racing Tournament, in Penang, Malaysia. Surrounded on three sides by bluey-green jungle covered mountains - the fourth side a breathtaking view down to the local resort - the reservoir is as still as anyone could hope for for a rowing competition


Festival Name: Vappu
Festival Country: Finland
Festival Type(s): Traditional, Party, National
Finland's Carnival-style celebration of Vappu is one of Europe's best kept party secrets as hundreds of thousands take to the streets of Helsinki to usher in Spring


Festival Name: Budha's Birthday
Festival Country: Hong Kong
Festival Type(s): Religious, Traditional, Cultural
The Lord Buddha's birthday falls in early May on the Chinese calendar, and since 1999 Hong Kong has celebrated it as a public holiday.


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: Cannes Film Festival
Festival Country: France
Festival Type(s): Film, Party
"Dom! Dom!" The crowd around me was going wild as a black car swept past. Through the tinted windows a woman smiled and waved directly to me. She looked vaguely familiar but I could not place her.


Festival Name: Montà Food and Wine Festival
Festival Country: Italy
Festival Type(s): Food and Wine, Wine, Food
It was on my very first trip to Italy where I stumbled on this food and wine tasting adventure to rival all others. An annual celebration - 2003 being its tenth anniversary - it was only by chance that I happened to be in Italy during the last weekend of May to catch up with two old school friends from Australia, one of whom was Italian.


Article Title: When Worlds Collide
Festival Name: Faerieworlds Festival
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Folk
They say that at certain times of the year, the veil between our world and the otherworldly realm of Faerie becomes so thin as to be non-existent. When that occurs, Faeriefolk glide and gambol through this, the human domain, magic fills the air and anything is possible. The date is May 10th, 2003 and once again the veil is at its thinnest. The event to mark this auspicious occasion is the first ever Faerieworlds Festival, a celebration of music, art and imagination for the 21st century.


Festival Name: Golden Week
Festival Country: Japan
Festival Type(s): Cultural, Traditional
Golden Week is one of the happiest times in Okinawa. With four holidays occurring within the week, many businesses are closed and schools are out. Those businesses that have to remain open can count on increased revenues as people celebrate the different holidays.


Festival Name: Araquio Festival
Festival Country: Philippines
Festival Type(s): Religious, Cultural, Performing Art
Araquio festival - one of its kind in the Philippines, and maybe in the world as well. It is Nueva Ecija's very own theatrical-cum-religious presentation likened to that of the zarzuelas during the Spaniards regime in the country.


Festival Name: Flores De Mayo (Flowers of May)
Festival Country: Philippines
Festival Type(s): Floral, Religious
Stop and smell the roses. During the month of May, in the tropical islands of the Philippines (where my roots are), we don't have to stop -- the fragrance of flowers floats in the air.


Article Title: Floralia
Festival Name: Floralia - May Day
Festival Country: Worldwide
Festival Type(s): Floral, Pagan
The festival of Floralia began around the year 258 BCE. Pagan Romans celebrated for six days, from April 27th to May 3rd, honouring their Goddess of Spring and of Flowers, Flora.


Festival Name: Tejano-Conjunto Music Festival
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Music - Traditional, Music - Rock
But mostly they come to listen and stomp their feet to the music of conjunto and the modern rock-influenced Tejano bands. This is essence of the San Antonio's version of a rollicking good-time-The Tejano-Conjunto Music Festival.

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