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Festival and events to attend in 2018

It is so amazing to see people being in different part of the world yet hold the same understanding such as love, happiness, sympathy etc. With thousands of languages, dialects, various mother tongues, culture. traditions yet hold the same lessons told to humanity.


Here, In this Article, I have provided a glimpse of the celebration of festivals and events happening all over the world. If you are searching for the reasons to attend the event .well, this is the right time to grab the opportunity and click "enter" and book that flight.


You'll not only discover the places but also discover the deep historical beliefs of that place and how the people are grounded with its long traditions.


OCTOBER 2018


Navratri




Where: Gujarat - India

When: 10 October 2018 -18 October 2018 (dates vary every year)


Navratri is a nine-day festival mainly celebrated in Gujarat. In the eastern part of India, in the states of West Bengal, Odisha, Assam, Bihar, Navratri is celebrated as Durga Puja. During the festival, everyone does prayers, serves offerings to the goddess and spread joys and brightness all over.


AUSTIN CITY LIMITS




Where: Austin, Texas – USA When: 5 – 14 October 2018

Everybody just gathers and enjoy the music. Apart from the concert, there are various activities such as food, enjoying with friends keeps you busy all the time.

EPCOT FOOD & WINE FESTIVAL




Where: Orlando, Florida – USA When: 30 August – 12 November 2018


Enjoy all different types of wines freshly prepared. not a wine lover, no problem Epcot food and wine festival will turn you into a wine lover.


Halloween


Where: USA

When: 31 October 2018


Halloween activities include trick-or-treating (or the related guising), attending Halloween costume parties, carving pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing, divination games, playing pranks, visiting haunted attractions, telling scary stories, and watching horror films. In many parts of the world, the Christian religious observances of All Hallows' Eve, including attending church services and lighting candles on the graves of the dead, remain popular, although elsewhere it is a more commercial and secular celebration. Some Christians historically abstained from meat on All Hallows' Eve, a tradition reflected in the eating of certain vegetarian foods on this vigil day, including apples, potato pancakes, and soul cakes.


November 2018


Thanksgiving




Where: USA

When: 22 November 2018


Thanksgiving Day is traditionally a day for families and friends to get together for a special meal. The meal often includes a turkey, stuffing, potatoes, cranberry sauce, gravy, pumpkin pie, and vegetables. Thanksgiving Day is a time for many people to give thanks for what they have.


Diwali




Where: India

When:07 November 2018


Diwali is one of the most popular festivals of Hinduism. It symbolises the spiritual "victory of light over darkness, good over evil and knowledge over ignorance". During the celebration, temples, homes, shops and office buildings are brightly illuminated.


DIA DE LOS MUERTOS (DAY OF THE DEAD)



Where: Mexico City – Mexico When: 2 November 2018


The Day of the Dead holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died and help support their spiritual journey.


LOY KRATHONG & YI PENG



Where: Chiang Mai – Thailand When: 23 November 2018


Loy Krathong and Yi Peng is a Siamese festival celebrated annually throughout the Kingdom of Thailand and in nearby countries with significant southwestern Tai cultures (Laos, Shan, Mon, Tanintharyi, Kelantan, Kedah and Xishuangbanna).


December 2018


MEVLANA WHIRLING DERVISHES



Where: Konya – Turkey When: 10 – 18 December 2018


Men dressed in whites robes and tall hats spinning in circles doesn’t sound as exciting as running with the bulls or dancing at Rio’s Carnival, but the chance to watch the Whirling Dervishes will change you in a way you’d never expect. Based on the teachings and practices of the 13th-century poet Rumi, this 10-day festival will expose you to the power of devotion and show you that spinning can do more than just make you dizzy.


KRAMPUSNACHT



Where: Tyrol – Austria When: 5 December (every year)


The mythical Krampus is horned half-goat, half-demon who is meant to whip children into being nice at Christmas – and he’s more than a little terrifying to the uninitiated.

Bearing horns, long dark hair (fur), and fangs, the anti-St. Nicholas comes with a chain and bells that he lashes about, along with a bundle of birch sticks meant to swat naughty children. He then hauls the bad kids down to the underworld. Or so the story goes. In the Austrian Alps, a parade of Krampus take over the streets, their chains rattling as they walk through the snow-covered streets, carrying torches of fire and whipping unsuspecting passersby. Go prepared. I didn’t sleep so well after attending this festival!


Christmas




Where: USA

When: 25 December 2018


Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world. A feast central to the Christian liturgical year, it is preceded by the season of Advent or the Nativity Fast and initiates the season of Christmastide, which historically in the West lasts twelve days and culminates on the Twelfth Night; in some traditions, Christmastide includes an octave. Christmas Day is a public holiday in many of the world's nations, is celebrated religiously by a majority of Christians, as well as culturally by many non-Christians, and forms an integral part of the holiday season centred around it.


HOGMANAY



Where: Edinburgh – Scotland When: 30 December – 1 January (every year)


Picture the core of the city bustling with people partying, jumping from one stage to the other as 5 bands are usually playing at the same time all over the place, staring at fireworks as midnight approaches, having a blast even when the weather doesn’t help and you will start understanding how much fun it is. And then add popular dances, an ice rink, Christmas markets, a Ferris wheel, a torchlight procession on the 30th, a proper music festival on the 31st is observed.



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