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Friday, December 6, 2013

The 10 Most Dirty Festivals from Around the World

  • 'Clean Monday ' in Galaxidi, Greece

Do not let the name fool you, this war is not clean that's where they threw a total of 1,300 kg of powder on each other during the festive season of the Greek Orthodox religion. Peoples preparing all day long "fight" with the old flour bags, shielding their homes with blankets, some people still buy goggles and masks.
  • La Tomatina  Festival Chinchilla, Queensland, Australia

Normally, throwing rotten tomatoes and eggs is considered insulting and protest, but the tomato fly in festival La Tomatina is a joy. Held annually in the town of Bunol, Spain, sour present festival attracts thousands of attendees. The exact origin of the festival is unknown, but theorized that it stems from anger in a parade. Despite the mess, what happened in La Tomatina festival will surely make you satisfied.
  •   Chinchilla Watermelon Festival, Australia

Among all the food festivals in the world, Chichillian watermelon festival seems most creative. Not only is watermelon thrown together that people still think of all the game related to melons, such as "slip watermelon".

  • Buffet monkeys, Lopburi, Thailand


This festival is relatively safe and clean for the tourists when no food was thrown into own but they will be monitored party for monkey with hundreds of kilograms of food, beverages and fruit.

  • Battle of Oranges, Ivrea, Italy


Carnevale d'Ivrea or Battle of Oranges takes place at Ivera city in northern Italy, as well as a festival involving food . Almost like La Tomatina festival seems rooted in the people's uprising. Today, battle cam includes colorful costumes and play different roles in order to "fight".

  • Lathmar Holi Festival, India


Holi is a day that is awash in color. Participants gather and throw colored powders and water at each other. The colored powders have traditional significance in Ayurvedic medicine and were historically derived from medicinal plants. Different parts of the subcontinent celebrate Holi in unique ways—with certain songs and dances—but the main theme is the same. Lots of fanfare and a multitude of colors.

  • Batalla del Vino, Spain


If you think that the tomato stains are the most special then you will have more surprises than when it comes to the war of wine in La Rioja wine. La Rioja is famous for wine production and seem to yield very abundance. During the festival, everybody spray alcohol into each other until all turned purple, apparently drunk and stumble.

  • Songkran Festival, Thailand


Songkran Festival or Water Festival is probably the cleanest festival in this list, but anyone who ever spent a day in a "water park" also found that walking with wet clothes all day is not for you clean feeling. The festival takes place in April, the hottest month of the year in Thailand and lasted for several days.

  • Cheese Rolling Competition, UK


There are hundreds of years of history, Cheese Rolling Competition in Coopers Hill, Gloucestershire, rooted in prayer to bless to have a successful crop. Today, this festival is mainly for young people rolling down the hill to find cheese. After rolling, the participants covered by mud and grass, as a way to honor tradition.


  • Boryeong Mud Festival, South Korea


Nothing dirty but fun as wear bikini and rolling around in mud. More than two million people around the world came to attend the Boryeong Mud Festival in South Korea every year to get dirty. Boryeong not only built up a reputation for quality products to mineral-rich mud cosmetics to manufacture that also used to attract tourists to the fun party like this.

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