This year the festival was held in Bangkok, Thailand.

This massive Q-Dance festival takes place in the Netherlands!
 

These gorgeous colourful costumes are one of the great features of the annual street festival.

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The Rio street carnival is the world’s biggest and most celebrated festival and is attended by approximately 5 million people. Here are some moments from this year carnival.

Here are some of the hilarious creations from the 24th roller carriage fiesta in Medellin, Colombia.

Showers of wine have been poured in Pamplona, Northern Spain, as thousands of people in red scarfs came to city plaza to celebrate the opening of the San Fermin festival. This celebration is famous for its fireworks shows, parties, parades and the running of the bulls, when hundreds of people run in front of six bulls down the narrow streets.

Every fall Berlin is filled with a variety of projections and illuminations. This spectacular October event is known as the Festival of Lights. Inside this post, you are invited to an incredible ‘lightseeing’ tour.

Welcome to the Black Rock desert. This desert is home to the Burning Man Festival. Some very strange looking people attend the event but there is plenty to see and do plus it is a great place to express your creativity.

In Pamplona, Spain there were thousands of thrill seekers running ahead of six fighting bulls in the streets of the northern Spanish city during this year’s San Fermin festival. Although, four people were taken to the hospital, no one was gored.

The annual week long music festival brings together some of the biggest bands and stars, this year Beyonce, U2 and Coldplay will be performing, for a very wet experience. As these pictures show, a high tolerance for mud is required to endure this extremely dirty event.

The Afrika Burn festival is a great event that is held annyally in the Karoo. This semi-desert area gathers together thousands of people who express themselves in the most creative ways. Some couples like to marry during this festival. People also create massive art pieces that are burned to the ground on the final night of Afrika Burn.

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Each year in Valencia, Spain the citizens put on a five-day celebration of Saint Joseph that culminates with the burning of the fallas or ninots (puppets). These puppets are constructed throughout the year and then destroyed in a fiery blaze, making for compelling images. Parades worldwide should take their cue from this festival.

Who wouldn’t want ink spread all over their flesh, including their neck, hands and backs? Apparently there are quite a few people in love with covering most of their bodies with colorful tattoos, and even a few willing to modify their bodies in the name of art.

Yeah its Friday! We are all happy to see the end of another week draw to a close. A lot of us got snow and bluster, but now we can relax at home and let the snow fall down without having to venture outdoors. Here are some pics to help you keep busy during that downtime.

Grrr Gonna Get Ya!

Last year we published pictures from the Burning Man Festival 2009, this time we propose you to take a look at a big selection of the best shots from this festival through out the years.

For those who don’t know what this festival is about: do you remember Malcolm in the middle? It the episode when they try to sneak out with Reese to the festival in the desert, which turns into a family vacation when Hal and Lois get in on it. Well, they were heading to this same festival of crazy self-expression :)

 A Bunch of photos from Wave-Gotik-Treffen which is an annual world festival for "dark" music and arts in Leipzig, Germany. The festival also features several fairs with medieval, gothic and cultural merchandise.

These photos are of the world’s biggest tomato fight taking place in Bunol, Spain. The fight is among about 40,000 tourists and uses 100 tons of ripe tomatoes. The fight is part of an annual festival that has taken place for the past 60 years.

See pictures of last year’s edition here:

The Tomatina 2009

In fact, these people look nice and friendly, though the outfits are a bit spooky. Would you participate?

The Ostrich Festival was created in Arizona in 1989. It is held annually and attracts thousands of fun-lovers, who enjoy attractions, music, parade and ostrich races. Would you dare to ride an ostrich?  

As last year I'm sanding you some photos from the biggest free open-air festival in Europe - "The Przystanek Woodstock". This are only a few of my photos, if you want to see some more professional ones check: //www.wosp.org.pl/woodstock/galeria and for more info about the festival in English check: //www.en.wosp.org.pl/woodstock_festival/come_to_przystanek_woodstock

Thousands of tourists and residents in Spain sprayed each other with wine during the famous San Fermin bull-running festival. This is a street drinking party that lasts for 9 days. “Viva San Fermin!,” this traditional shout from the City Hall balcony started the festival. It was followed by the firecracker’s firing called the chupinazo.