1. Albuquerque International Balloon Festival
The phenomenon is known as the "Albuquerque Box," which is the combination of weather patterns and geography that results in balloonists having great control over their balloons. All in all, Albuquerque is a great place to launch a hot air balloon, thousands of balloons, different shapes and sizes are seen at the time of festival!
2. Boryeong Mud Festival - South Korea
South Korea is known for its superabundance of seemingly random festivals, but Mud festival is indeed the greatest among them. It takes place right by the Daecheon Beach every year, so you can easily muddy yourself up, then pop into the ocean to rinse off. In case you attend and get bored of the mudslides, mud pools, and mud skiing, you can enjoy live music, acupuncture, and the festival's culminating fireworks display.
3. Harbin Ice and Snow Festival - Harbin, China
A festival exhibiting the most exquisite ice and snow sculptures in the world.This exhibition has a lot to offer, one can only find out after visiting it... Every year people build incredible things out of ice and snow, decorating them with lights and lasers.and it is phenomenal!
4. Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) - Mexico
1 & 2 November, it’s a two-day festival celebrating the reunion of relatives with their dear departed. Expect colorful costumes, loads of food and drink, skeletons on stilts, parties in cemeteries, skull-shaped lollies and mariachi bands performing next to graves. This beautiful, moving spectacle will demystify your fear of crossing over, celebrating the continuation of life beyond and the value of interdimensional communion.
5. Tomorrowland —Belgium
Tomorrowland - a quickly grown to become one of the world’s largest electronic dance music festivals. Each year over 100,000 visitors flocks to Belgium to dance the day and night away. The fan club is increasing day by day!
6. The Bull run - Pamplona, Spain
The Running of the Bulls is a part of the famous San Fermin festival - a practice that involves running in front of a small group of bulls that have been let loose on a course of a sectioned-off subset of a town's streets.The Running of the Bulls is a time-honored Spanish tradition, which is much to raise your adrenaline levels, whether you’re running or watching.
7. Holi - India
Holi is a spring festival also known as the festival of colors. It is an ancient Hindu religious festival which starts with a Holika bonfire on the night before Holi where people gather, sing and dance. The next morning is “Dhuleti” free for all carnival of colors, where everyone plays, chases and colors each other with dry color and colored water, with some carrying water guns and colored water-filled balloons. People forget differences and play with full of fun and amusement.
8. Carnival of Venice - Venice, Italy
This festival started back around 900 years ago.It was the time during the year when there were no bounds. Everybody was free to do things desired all year without any guilt thanks to the masks. During the carnival, Venice comes alive with masked Venetians and tourists. Bands,jugglers, and entertainers are everywhere and the canals are full of colorful boats. The nights are also full of parties and masked balls.It gives you a feeling as if fairy tales are coming alive!
9. Lantern Festival - Pingxi, Taiwan
It is a festival that witnesses thousands of sky lantern light over Pingxi District in Taiwan. The festival was originally celebrated to ward of evil and disease from the town. These lanterns are decorated with wishes and images relating to the owner and finally, they're released into the sky together magically decorating the sky into a thousand of lights. It creates a magnificent sight! The thing which will enlighten your life throughout!
10. La Tomatina - Spain
As crazy as it may seem, this festival is held every year purely for fun, meaning it isn’t tied to any ancient traditions. Fun, frolic, dance and lots of tomatoes - this is one festival you absolutely cannot miss. Participants throw tomatoes at each other and ride down those tomato-streaked slides having the time of their lives. Be it tomato fights or the enormous water showers that follow, La Tomatina is a festival that gets you dancing and engaging wrapped up in the unlimited fun!
11. Songkran Water Festival - Thailand
The Thai New Year festival falls on some of the hottest days in
Thailand, and people celebrate by throwing water on each other, using water guns, buckets, hoses- whatever they can get their hands on. Elephants can also be seen walking around and splashing off water jets at people!
12. Gay Pride Parade - Amsterdam, Netherlands
Amsterdam Pride is a gay-festival held annually at the center of Amsterdam during the first weekend of August. The festival attracts several hundred thousand visitors each year and thus one of the largest publicly held annual events in the Netherlands. The peak of the festival is during the canal parade, a parade of boats of large variety on the first Saturday of August can be seen swarming the waters with activists and people from around the world.
13. Full Moon Party - Haad Rin Beach, Koh Phangan, Thailand
Thailand’s Full Moon Party on Haad Rin beach in Koh Phangan is world renown for its hedonistic pleasures, drawing crowds of up to 30,000 every full moon. Haad Rin is the island’s nightlife capital and has Koh Phangan’s biggest concentration of beach clubs that collectively put on the ultimate travelers get together. It is A PARTY GONE WILD! So if you're a party animal..this is your place to be.