Cherry Blossom Season Japan 2026
The Cherry Blossom Season Japan or sakura is one of the country's top highlights every year when locals and visitors gather to admire the stunning, blooming cherry trees in parks
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Songkran Festival 2026, Thailand
Songkran, or Thailand's water festival, is an occasion of great fun especially in the major cities such as Bangkok and Chiang Mai. The Songkran Festival 2025 plans to be even bigger than usual...
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Khmer New Year 2026, Cambodia
Traditional Khmer New Year or Chaul Chnam Thmei is held in April each year. Roads across the country are lined with groups of excited Cambodians armed with water pistols and buckets
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La Linea 2026 – London’s Latin Music Festival
Judith Schrut previews La Linea, London’s annual Latin Music Festival. It won’t surprise you to learn that London, the world’s most diverse city, is home to more than 270 nationalities
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Palo de Mayo (Maypole) Festival Bluefields, Nicaragua
Get ready to shimmy under a rainbow of ribbons and sway to infectious beats! The Maypole Festival (Festival del Palo de Mayo) in Bluefields, Nicaragua, bursts onto the scene on
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Jack in the Green Hastings, Sussex
The Jack in the Green Festival takes place in the Sussex coastal town of Hastings – 1066 and all that – traditionally over the May Day Bank Holiday weekend. A festival steeped in English folklore
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Royal Ploughing Ceremony Cambodia 2026
The Royal Ploughing Ceremony, officially known as “Preah Reach Pithi Bonn Chrot Preah Neangkol”, is an ancient royal rite held in May to mark the end of the dry season and the start of the monsoons
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Visak Bochea Day, Cambodia 2026
As the most sacred day in the Buddhist calendar, Visak Bochea Day is celebrated with great revere. It sees celebrators dress in white and dish out a form of rice pudding called kheer...
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Hoi An Lantern Festival 2026, Vietnam
The Hoi An Lantern Festival is celebrated once a month on the full moon, and most significantly on the first full moon of the lunar new year. On these days the pretty little town of Hoi An...
Panafest (Pan African Historical Theatre Project) Festival, Ghana
The Panafest (Pan African Historical Theatre Project) Festival bursts with colour, culture and deep historical meaning. Feel energised by its mix of performances, heritage tours and emotional homecoming ceremonies. The
Independence Day Madagascar
Independence Day so bursts with colour, music and national pride, that it is so easy to feel swept up in the excitement. The celebrations fill Antananarivo with parades, fireworks and
Grand Mariage Weddings (Dola n’kou), Comoros Islands
The weekends of 8-9, 15-16 and 22-23 August 2026 will be the peak time for Grand Mariage Weddings (Dola n’kou), Comoros Islands, though expect many more events on weekends from
Onam Festival 2026, Kerala, India
During the days of the Onam Festival, the biggest and most spectacular festival of Kerala, the entire Indian state goes on a spree of celebrations, music and dance performances, elaborate
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World Bog Snorkelling Championship, Wales
The World Bog Snorkelling Championship is part of a two-day World Bog Series taking place over the August Bank Holiday weekend in Llanwrtyd Wells, Wales. The World Bog Snorkelling...
Notting Hill Carnival 2026, London, UK
The August Bank Holiday weekend can really only mean one thing in London - the Notting Hill Carnival. The largest free street festival in Europe runs from the Saturday to Monday of the long weekend
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Muxima Pilgrimage, Bengo, Angola
Muxima Pilgrimage draws thousands of devoted travellers to the banks of the Kwanza River, where faith, music and community blend into an unforgettable spiritual celebration. Feel energised by the vibrant
The Umhlanga Reed Dance 2025 Eswatini
The Umhlanga Reed Dance is a vibrant cultural celebration held annually in Eswatini, Africa. It is a unique and colourful event where thousands of unmarried young women, known as maidens,
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Pchum Ben Festival in Cambodia
For 15 days a year, the gates of hell open and seven generations of tortured souls roam the land in search of food. Welcome to the Pchum Ben Festival in Cambodia. People dressed in the traditional Buddhist
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Ganesh Chaturthi Festival 2026, India
The spectacular Hindu Ganesh Chaturthi festival involves colourful festivities, involving singing, dancing and theatre honouring the birth of the elephant-headed deity. The start of the festival sees huge, colourful statues
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Michigan Irish Music Festival 2026, USA
The Michigan Irish Music Festival is a three-day ceilidh, held by the waterfront in the sleepy little town of Muskegon, which borders Lake Michigan, is a real hoot of an
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