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The Sydney New Year's Eve celebrations are always among the most spectacular in the world. Activity focuses around a glittering Darling Harbour and the majestic Harbour Bridge, the backdrop…
Bearing in mind the Scottish propensity for old-fashioned revelry, one would expect a few choruses of Auld Lang Syne on New Year's Eve. In this spirit Edinburgh hosts four days of festivities…
Chinese New Year Celebrations in Hong Kong
Join in the vibrant Chinese New Year Celebrations in Hong Kong. The New Year Night Parade hits Tsim Sha Tsui East on the Kowloon peninsula with a cavalcade of colourful floats, dragon dancers…
The Mardi Gras in New Orleans is one of the largest, most famous and most spectacular parties in the world, drawing hundreds of thousands of revellers each year. Expect flamboyant 'krewe'…
The Cologne Carnival is one of the biggest street parties in Europe. The famous Altstadt (old town) is transformed into a dazzling and colourful celebration, with what seems like the entire…
Trinidad's carnival is the definitive street party. Each year, thousands of scantily-clad, sequinned and feathered masqueraders take to the streets to music provided by DJ trucks. Don sequins…
Salvador Carnival, one of the world's biggest and most famous, brings out the best of Afro-Brazilian music and dance. The spectacle of the religious groups, known as Afoxé societies, is one of…
Prepare to get soaked with the crowds on Khao San Road and elsewhere in the city at the traditional Buddhist New Year festival of Songkran. The watery celebrations go on all night and through…
Throughout the Netherlands the Dutch celebrate Queen's Day, actually the Queen Mother's birthday, with a national party. Amsterdam crowds dressed in orange enjoy citywide open-air festivities…
Pride is the largest annual celebration on San Francisco's world-famous gay scene. The march along Market Street is a colourful explosion of gyrating bodies and noise, and one of the biggest…
Where better to celebrate Independence Day than in the US capital? After a parade featuring 100 marching units along Constitution Avenue, the popular music begins. There's a programme of…
France's national holiday commemorates the storming of the Bastille at the start of the French Revolution. Crowds line the Champs-Elysées for a military parade led by the President, and…
Around a million people hit Notting Hill's streets in West London for Europe's biggest carnival. Fabulous floats make a colourful circuit of the area and sound systems blast out music all day.…
Burning Man is an annual gathering of some 25,000 people in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. Named after the effigy burnt on the final night, it's a once-in-a-lifetime experience for the brave, the…
The Cologne Carnival is one of the biggest street parties in Europe. The famous Altstadt (old town) is transformed into a dazzling and colourful celebration, with what seems like the entire…
Day of the Virgin of Guadalupe Cliff Diving
Freestyle cliff divers gracefully launch themselves off La Quebrada every year on 12 December, the Day of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Piercing the sea below in an impossibly narrow inlet, the…
Harbin Ice Lantern Festival (Haerbin Bingdengjie)
Harbin makes the most of its freezing winters with the impressive Harbin Ice Lantern Festival (Haerbin Bingdengjie). Huge ice blocks are carved into sculptures and buildings are lit from…
Calgary hosts one of the world's greatest rodeos every year at Stampede Park, attracting over a million visitors. The Calgary Stampede mixes the thrills of a high-stakes professional rodeo…
The Chicago Air & Water Show presents two fun-packed days of spectacular air and watercraft demonstrations on Lincoln Park's lakefront, with North Avenue Beach as focal point. Highlights…
Custer State Park Buffalo Roundup
Buffalo herds on the Great Plains is one of the iconic images of the "Wild West". Cowboys and park staff host the Custer State Park Buffalo Roundup as they gather the 1500-strong herd of…
