World’s Wackiest Festivals

Posted by Alex in Pictures, Travel & Places on August 30, 2007 at 1:25 am



Photo: John D. McHugh

Here’s a fantastic photoessay from Time Magazine, titled The World’s Wackiest Holiday, featuring such gems as Scotland’s Up Helly-Aa Viking festival (above), Summer Redneck Games, Spain’s Tomatina tomato fight, Japan’s Naked Festival, Thailand’s Monkey Buffet, and many more!

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3 comments to "World’s Wackiest Festivals"

  1. Britt
    August 30th, 2007 at 2:26 am

    I’m surprised the Montreal ‘Just For Laughs’ festival wasn’t mentioned. -That’s- a wacky festival.

  2. pol x
    August 30th, 2007 at 4:02 am

    I wouldn’t call Up Helly Aa a whacky festival.

    The Islands sit slap bang in the middle of the north sea, right between Scotland ad Norway.

    And used to belong to Norway, so a ceremonial Viking Funeral and fire throwing seem frankly a bit tame when they could have gone for sacrifice and doing the blood eagle on their enemies.

  3. L
    August 30th, 2007 at 12:43 pm

    The actual link calls them “holidays”. Which they’re not. And I don’t think some of them are all that “wacky”. The people who have been celebrating them for hundreds of years probably don’t think so, either.


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