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Festivals in November - 12 Articles

Article Title: Day of the Dead

Festival Name: Day of the Dead

Festival Country: Mexico

Festival Type(s): Traditional, Religious, Family

It's early November in Oaxaca, Mexico, and the city and surrounding countryside are dripping flowers in preparation for the Day of the Dead. It sounds mournful, even somewhat ominous, but the atmosphere here is more jovial than funereal.

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Article Title: Mexico's Devilishly Dark Side

Festival Name: Day of the Dead

Festival Country: Mexico

Festival Type(s): Traditional, Pagan, Religious

El Dia de los Muertos (the Day of the Dead) is Mexico's popular two-day holiday honouring the dead. Oaxaca, 550 kilometres southeast of Mexico City, is one region where this strong holiday tradition survives.

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Article Title: Elephant Polo

Festival Name: Elephant Polo World Championships

Festival Country: Nepal

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

This sport, played exclusively in four countries - India, and the three-members of Elephant Polo Association: Thailand, Sri Lanka, and Nepal - presents all the challenges of pony polo, plus plenty of problems particular to playing perched upon pachyderms.

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Article Title: Phimai Festival

Festival Name: Phimai Festival

Festival Country: Thailand

Festival Type(s): Cultural, Dance - Folk, Family

Each November the town of Phimai, along with the Tourist Authority of Thailand, hosts a magnificent festival in celebration of the region's cultural history. The occasion offers visitors plenty of entertainment and a chance to delve into Northeastern Thailand's cultural roots.

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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: 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: Victoria, Texas: Shopping, Eating Out and the Macaroni Festival

Festival Name: Macaroni Festival

Festival Country: USA

Festival Type(s): Local, Food

Victoria, Texas, smack-dab in the heart of the grandest State in the whole United States of America! - continues to age and improve like a fine old wine.

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Article Title: Thanksgiving - A Holiday for the Birds?

Festival Name: Thanksgiving

Festival Country: USA

Festival Type(s): Traditional, Historical, Cultural

Thanksgiving. A joyous celebration of the Old World meeting the New World. How exciting it must have been the day the first settlers stepped foot onto this strange and wonderful world and came face to face with the original natives of this exciting new land. (Not unlike the Grand Opening of a Caldor's.)

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Article Title: New Braunsfels, Texas: Merry making at the Wurstfest!

Festival Name: Wurstfest

Festival Country: USA

Festival Type(s): Cultural, Multicultural, Party

Recently, while driving into New Braunsfels, Texas, I was impressed by the small-town charm of the locale. It is evident that the city-fathers have managed to maintain the original old-world, Germanic ambiance. Even before you enter the area, the billboards along IH 35 provide amusing reading-my all-time favorite: 'TACOS-GET STUFFED!'

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Article Title: Rollicking San Antonio's Wine and Food Festival

Festival Name: San Antonio Wine and Food Festival

Festival Country: USA

Festival Type(s): Food and Wine, Wine

The sparkling new, first-time-ever, 'New World Wine and Food Festival' roared into San Antonio like a comet. If I had to use one word to describe the whole extravaganza I would choose: spectacular.

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Article Title: Taxco - Mexico's Silver Fair

Festival Name: Mexico's Silver Fair

Festival Country: Mexico

Festival Type(s): National, Art, Cultural

Located 185 km southwest of Mexico City, in the northern Guerrero State, the streets of Taxco (Tahs-co) are lined with silver--silver jewelry, that is. In 1953 to honor the silver artisans, Mexico's President declared the last Saturday in November through the first Sunday in December National Silver Day.

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Article Title: The Elephant Round Up in Surin

Festival Name: Surin Elephant Festival

Festival Country: Thailand

Festival Type(s): Traditional, Animal, Cultural

People come from the far ends of the Kingdom even foreigners pour in bus and train loads from the likes of Bangkok and Chiang Mai. They all come to see what Asia's largest animal - the lovable elephant - can do and they rarely go away disappointed.

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