The most unusual and amazing holiday

A series of photos dedicated to the most unusual and amazing holiday from different corners of our planet.

For example, the annual festival of The Summer Redneck Games in Georgia, USA, the apotheosis of which is a competition for plyuhanyu the liquid clay (Mud Pit Belly Flop) under the joyful cries of the fans. A special delight of the audience is a clay rain sheds at all after a particularly loud competitors dive into the red sticky mass.

Monkey Banquet (Monkey Buffet) in the province of Lopburi. Each year, about 600 monkeys are invited to the dinner, which consists of a variety of fruits and vegetables. Monkey banquet held in honor of the god Rama, who, according to legend, with the army of monkeys has won over many of his opponents.





The festival of colors, New Delhi (The Festival of Colors) - India's national holiday in honor of the arrival of spring, celebrating the expulsion of evil and rebirth of life. It is celebrated for 2 days during the full moon. According to legend, on this day the demon Holika perished evil. On this day in each city held its celebration everywhere bonfires are lit to symbolize the end of winter and the death of evil spirits. On fire burned Holika, throw the fruits of the harvest season - corn, coconuts, etc. In the morning people go out into the street and the fun begins - all doused each other with colored water red, green, yellow, blue and black, and throw colored powders.



Tomatina (Tomatina) in the village of Bunol - the famous "Battle of the tomato." This is one of the most popular and visited events in Spain. Every year it is visited by about 36 thousand people. On special trucks to the site of the battle brought "weapon" - about 100 tons of ripe tomatoes. Rules are pretty simple here - you can throw tomatoes at anyone, most importantly, to avoid injury, tomatoes need a good knead. Also, you can not tear your clothes and throw opponents something else other than tomatoes, in spite of all the excitement, which, of course, covers the opponents. After the end of the battle area wash hoses, participants washed in specially established for this shower or simply go swimming in the river.



Holiday naked (Naked Mens' Festival) in Japan - Hadaka Matsuri or "naked festival", which is marked with the year 767. The church is going Saidaji 3000 men aged 23 to 43 years old who are dressed only in loincloths. The purpose of this holiday - to attract good luck, because it is believed that the naked man takes away all the troubles, when touched. The participants of the festival after a visit to the Temple, where the cleansing, organize a march through the streets of the city, where hundreds of people in search of fortune trying to touch them. On this day, as the street is cool in February, and we must have the courage to come out half-naked on the street, the Japanese drink a lot of sake.



The Chap & Hendrick's Olympics in England. Community representatives Chap and Hendrick's conduct annual competition among gentlemen outdoors in London's Bedford Square, which aims to support and preserve the traditions of English gentlemanly.



Marsh Zombie (Zombie March) in Boston. The city center that day zapolonyayut being allegedly went in search of their prey. Some of the "zombie" prefer to dress up in costumes and bloodstained wedding rubber masks, others depict the living dead, moving like Michael Jackson in the video 1983 «Thriller».



The ancient ancestor worship festival called Tapati (Tapati Festival) celebrated the inhabitants of Easter Island, Chile. Islanders decorate each other in special clothing and arrange dance. Both men and women compete in the race with a bunch of bananas. Supervises specially elected queen of the festivities: it must be not only beautiful, but also hardworking. Strict jury Elders counts how many caught fish and weave cloth, each contender.



Scottish holiday Aphelio (Up-Helly-Aa). Residents of the city (Lerwick), which is a holiday, make a 30-foot model Korablin Vikings (the dragon on the nose), dress the Vikings lit torches, the procession through the streets, blowing in the traditional military bugles, and through the city carry the ship to sea. More than 900 beautifully dressed participants follow a retinue of 40 Vikings and their gigantic ship to the point where it will be ignited by the fire. Evening torch procession through the ancient rite of burial of the dead soldiers burned wooden Viking boat. On the coast, the ship burned - 900 burning torches thrown to the "ancient" ship.



Ivan Kupala - the national holiday celebrated in the Slavic countries (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus) at the summer solstice. The holiday is celebrated on the shortest night of the year - with bonfires, hopping through them - happiness, songs, traditional games, walk with Birches, fortune telling. This holiday - a cult of light, the sun, all living in this time of "curative dew, grass medical, water purifying". According to legends, the night of Kupala's not sleep, as the night time revelry was considered the dark forces of nature, from whom did different charms.