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A Year of Festivals
The Guide to the World's Greatest Happenings
A Year of Festivals takes you around the world in pursuit of festivals in all their flamboyant color and variety. Discover music, camel races, feats of endurance, manic street parties and monumental food fights! From the sublime (Venice's Carnevale or India's Krishna Janmastami) to the absurd (Finland's Wife-Carrying Championships or Australia's Beer Can Regatta) - the best of the famous and little-known alike are represented here. Be inspired and plan a year to remember!
Organized by month and week to help you to plan a great festival experience at any time of year.
Country and Festival indexes allow you to also search by the destination of your next vacation, or by the name or theme of the festival you want to experience.
Includes essential planning tips and contacts for further information on events throughout the book.
A Year of Festivals takes you around the world in pursuit of festivals in all their flamboyant color and variety. Discover music, camel races, feats of endurance, manic street parties and monumental food fights! From the sublime (Venice's Carnevale or India's Krishna Janmastami) to the absurd (Finland's Wife-Carrying Championships or Australia's Beer Can Regatta) - the best of the famous and little-known alike are represented here. Be inspired and plan a year to remember!
Organized by month and week to help you to plan a great festival experience at any time of year.
Country and Festival indexes allow you to also search by the destination of your next vacation, or by the name or theme of the festival you want to experience.
Includes essential planning tips and contacts for further information on events throughout the book.
- GenresTravelNonfiction
224 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 2008
About the author
Lonely Planet
4,046 books959 followersOUR STORY
A beat-up old car, a few dollars in the pocket and a sense of adventure. In 1972 that’s all Tony and Maureen Wheeler needed for the trip of a lifetime – across Europe and Asia overland to Australia. It took several months, and at the end – broke but inspired – they sat at their kitchen table writing and stapling together their first travel guide, Across Asia on the Cheap. Within a week they’d sold 1500 copies and Lonely Planet was born. One hundred million guidebooks later, Lonely Planet is the world’s leading travel guide publisher with content to almost every destination on the planet.
A beat-up old car, a few dollars in the pocket and a sense of adventure. In 1972 that’s all Tony and Maureen Wheeler needed for the trip of a lifetime – across Europe and Asia overland to Australia. It took several months, and at the end – broke but inspired – they sat at their kitchen table writing and stapling together their first travel guide, Across Asia on the Cheap. Within a week they’d sold 1500 copies and Lonely Planet was born. One hundred million guidebooks later, Lonely Planet is the world’s leading travel guide publisher with content to almost every destination on the planet.
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April 29, 2017
What a great collection of events! it makes you feel citizen of the world and to run for a RTW ticket right away!
February 3, 2010
A Year of Festivals: A Guide to Having the Time of Your Life by Lonely Planet (Lonely Planet Publications 2008)(910.202). This is a fascinating guide to all of the obscure, exotic, bizarre, and trippy festivals and celebrations held throughout the world. These are arranged chronologically by calendar date, and the guide includes travel information to the celebrant country. This guide covers the most exotic festivals in the world including Holi, Kumbh Mela, Burning Man, and La Tomatina. My rating: 7.5/10, finished 2010.
April 6, 2013
Great for the fun-loving globe trotter! A bit too big to fit in your average backpack so I might get the Kindle version.
This book covers festivals around the world - from the religious to the downright, um, hedonistic. Gives you the locations for the best parades/celebration/parties and also warnings for the faint-hearted to prepare (if any).
Definitely useful as I add more must-sees to my travel bucket list :)
This book covers festivals around the world - from the religious to the downright, um, hedonistic. Gives you the locations for the best parades/celebration/parties and also warnings for the faint-hearted to prepare (if any).
Definitely useful as I add more must-sees to my travel bucket list :)
October 25, 2008
entertaining for an armchair travel book - excellent photographs
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