Tag: festivals
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A Quick & Simple Guide to the Chiang Mai Flower Festival
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The city of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand blooms every February for the Chiang Mai Flower Festival. This three-day festival is a celebration of spring, showcasing the region’s flowers, cultural traditions, and is generally just an excuse for a party.
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Lopburi Monkey Festival: A Temple Banquet for Thailand’s Macaques
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Updated December 2024 The Lopburi Monkey Festival, or “Monkey Buffet Festival”, is one of Thailand’s most unusual and entertaining annual events. Held in the ancient city of Lopburi, located about 150 kilometres (93 miles) north of Bangkok, this festival honours the local monkey population that has become synonymous with the…
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How to Celebrate Mexican Independence Day in Mexico City
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Last September, I arrived in Ciudad de Mexico with no real knowledge about Mexican history or culture. However, I just had to look around at the glittering displays of green, white and red to know something was going on and indeed it was – I had stumbled into celebrating Mexico…
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Netherlands New Year’s Eve: Dodging Fireworks in Den Haag
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This year I literally saw in the New Year with a bang, as I celebrated New Year’s Eve in the Netherlands visiting a friend in Den Haag. She had warned me about a few odd Dutch traditions for New Year, but I was unprepared for the level of crazy my…
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Scheveningen Beach | A New Year’s Dive in the Netherlands
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After booking a last-minute flight to the Netherlands to spend New Year with a friend living in The Hague, I found myself being roped into the Nieuwjaarsduik Scheveningen. So, while you were nursing your New Year’s Eve hangover, I was taking a plunge into the North Sea as part of…
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Don’t Tell Your Mother | A Mother’s Day Special
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Dear Mum, I have a confession or two. Sometimes when I travel or I relay an anecdote from an adventure somewhere, I may leave out a few choice details. But, especially for Mother’s Day, I thought it was time to share/scare you with a couple of revelations: I have travelled…
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Happy Paddlers : Dragon Boat Races 2016
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There is nothing like a dragon boat race. The roar of the paddlers calling time, the drummer, the pounding of paddles pulling through the water, an undulating dragon skimming across the top of the ocean…
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10 Surprising Facts About Chinese New Year I Learnt Living in Hong Kong
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Red lanterns are up, the banks are packed and preparations are well underway for Chinese New Year, also known as Spring Festival. Before I started living in Hong Kong, I thought CNY was all firecrackers, dumplings and fun animal horoscopes (and those are definitely a fun part of it). But there’s…
