5 The World's Greatest Bizarre Festivals

PAMPLONA BULL run

Do you have a death want and a love of enormous angry furry mammals? Are you searching for the simplest way to mix your 2 passions? Look no additional, I provide you with the
Pamplona Bull Run. The running of the bulls is a component of the Fiesta San Fermin that begins sixth July till 14th July, once a year in Pamplona, Spain.

The Fiesta will just about what's says on the tin; you run through the streets with some angry bulls chasing you, hungry to try and do some goring. I bet you’re thinking it can’t be that unhealthy. Well you most likely won’t have had any sleep because of the riotous partying the night before and you most likely have had a handful of very little tipples yourself. thus currently you have got to run 800m with bulls, sleep deprived and slightly drunk or hung over — will it still look like an honest idea?

If you’re still crazy enough to present it ago, here are some very little tips to assist see you thru (although I can’t promise that.) Respect the bulls; they're worshipped by the locals and it’s not an honest plan to own each pissed off bulls and locals chasing you. Pickpockets are rife in Pamplona; you'd be gutted to induce the hospital to understand you couldn’t pay to own that enormous hole in your leg fastened. Lastly, if you are doing fall whereas doing the run, curl into a ball and hope for the most effective.

Olney Pancake Race

Where: Olney, England, UK

When: Pancake Day or Fat Tuesday (next date is February fourteen, 2010)

At 11:55 am on Shrove Tuesday (aka Pancake Day, aka Fat Tuesday), the native girls assemble wearing ancient housewife apparel (including skirt, apron and scarf) and run 415 yards through the streets of Olney carrying a frying pan. The pancakes are tossed at the beginning of the race and therefore the winner is should toss her pancake once more at the end. The race has been an Olney tradition since 1445 and in 1950, the competition expanded to incorporate a friendly flapjack rivalry with the housewives and young ladies of Liberal, Kansas within the US. the women of Liberal won this past year’s race with a brand new record of fifty seven.5 seconds.

LA TOMATINA, VALENCIA

I found La Tomatina to be one among the foremost fun festivals within the world. La Tomatina is held within the city of Bunol, Valencia. throughout the annual La Tomatina competition, individuals gather within the town's main sq. and have interaction in a very tomato fight. The festival's origins date back to 1945 when young men started a brawl by throwing tomatoes at one another throughout the parade of Gigantes y Cabezudos.
To make the competition safe, there are some straightforward rules one among that is that you just should squeeze the tomato before you contribute order to avoid injuries.



Boryeong Mud Festival 

July 14-24
Boryeong, South Korea 

First staged in 1998, the Boryeong Mud currently attracts quite 1,000,000 guests to the South Korean town. Said to be madein minerals, the mud for the fancy.




Camel Wrestling Championship

January (annual event stayed the third Sunday in Jan)
Selcuk, Turkey

Now restricted to the Aegean region in Turkey, camel wrestling involves 2 camels butting one another till one offers in or is pinned down. typically the loser can run into the gang of spectators inflicting panic as onlookers strive to not get trampled.

The Baby-jumping El Colacho Spanish Festival

Finally we come to another fantastic, fun-fiiled celebration of life itself, in the South Korean annual festival known as the Boryeong mud bath.  If you dislike getting dirty, stay away from this mud festiva, because it really is all about messing everyone around you up, with Boryeong mud, considered to be very effective for treating any skin problems. International visitors with skin problems, found that they benefited by participating, which goes to show that fun can be of medical benefit, in more ways than one.

 Monkey buffet festival

All around the world, there are strange events that happen every year, like the Monkey buffet festival, in Thailand, pictured above, or the annual tomato fight at Bunol, in Spain, shown in the last image, but these that follow are seven  ot the oddest annual festivalsyou might ever visit, and maybe worth aiming to see, one day.

For the Chinese, Yue Lan, better known as the Festival of the Hungry Ghosts ,is celebrated to mark the day when, according to Chinese belief, a doorway opens, to the underworld, allowing restless spirits to wander the earth as freely as they wish. Fake money is burned, in an effort to appease the spirits, as well as paper models of things such as cars or houses, a method for passing these luxuries on to the world of the spirits. . Two to three days, for which the festival is celebrated, see streets lit with many paper lanterns, incense being burned  to keep ghosts at bay, and fireworks set off for the spirits, in some areas