Festivals of the world: Travel the world and feel the diversity of cultures.

Festivals are a living museum of dance cultures and traditions in a world of increasingly globalized. No better place for travelers to understand a country where an event is proud to celebrate their individuality, whether through music, camel races or monumental food fights. In January, the best parts listed below. Start the year with a bang, a drum, a song, a bathroom, etc., and you can book travel days through travel websites.
Junkanoo Location: Nassau, Bahamas. Dates: from 1 January and 26 December Nassau, Bahamas - Junkanoo Summer Festival (JSF) is back in Nassau for three weeks in the Bahamas cultural activities in a place that tourism officials expect to attract unprecedented support from Bahamas and visitors. The Junkanoo Festival is a celebration of freedom from slavery century slave named after John Canoe Africa 17. On this day, the slaves of the Bahamas could leave the plantations and to celebrate Christmas with his family and friends. It was an opportunity to release the song and dance in these difficult and miserable time. During the early years of the festival, Junkanoo parade participants donned masks and strange trotted on stilts. This celebration of freedom almost stopped when slavery was abolished, but the tradition is still in force in the Bahamas.
Kaapse Klopse (Cape Minstrel Carnival) Location: Cape Town, South Africa. Dates: begins on January 2, and go for a month The Kaapse Klopse (or just Klopse) is a minstrel festival that is celebrated every year on January 2, in Cape Town, South Africa. No less than 13,000 minstrels in the streets dressed in bright colors, either carrying colorful umbrellas or playing an array of musical instruments. The minstrels are grouped into Klopse ("clubs" in Cape Dutch, but translated into English troops with greater precision). Participants are generally Afrikaans families working class "colored" who preserved the custom since the mid-19th century.
Festival in the Desert Location: Essakane, Mali Dates: second weekend in January The Festival in the Desert (Desert Festival) is an annual concert in Essakane, Mali, showing the traditional Tuareg music as well as music from around the world. The Tuareg group Tinariwen has attracted international attention with his performance at the 2001 Festival. The celebration manifests what is expected in the "Flame of Peace", 1996, in which 3,000 weapons were publicly burned to signify the beginning of reconciliation between nomadic and sedentary communities south of the Sahara.
Bikaner Camel Festival Location: Bikaner, India Dates: Dates vary January (during the tenth month of the Hindu lunar calendar) The Bikaner Camel Festival is held in the beautiful city of Bikaner by the Department of Tourism of the State. The desert city of Bikaner is located in the northern part of Rajasthan. The festival is organized every year in January or at the end of December to highlight the value of the ship of the desert - "Camel". The two-day festival is marked by various interesting activities. It is a colorful spectacle of beautifully decorated camels that fascinates the audience with their charm and grace.
Given the unusual camels as camel racing activities, camel dances, and the neck, shaking rides bumpy camel really fascinates viewers. The camels display amazing footwork, dancing gracefully to the slightest direction of their riders.
The Tamborrada (Drum Festival) Location: San Sebastian, Spain. Date: January 20 Every year, January 20 (the feast of Saint Sebastian), the people of the city of San Sebastian (Spain) celebrate a festival known as "Tamborrada". At midnight, in the Plaza Konstituzio the "Alde Zaharra / Parte Vieja" (Old Town), the mayor raises the flag of San Sebastián. For 24 hours, day and night, the whole city is flooded with the sound of drums. The adults dressed as cooks and soldiers, march in different companies in different parts of the city with different schedules The celebration ends. midnight, when the flag of the city is reduced in several places, while the main point of encounter remains Konstituzio Plaza.