Festivals are large celebrations for the whole community in a certain place. These events are often filled with dancing, drinking, partying, and other activities related to a certain celebrated festivity. 

A festival may celebrate music, arts, historical event, food and drink, religion or tradition. For having the whole community celebrate and be involved, a festival is often proclaimed as a holiday as this provide entertainment to both locals and tourists.

Tunarama (Australia)

This festival promotes, as its name suggests, tuna. Australia has been known for their booming industry with tuna, and with this, they celebrate it with the cash cow of their fisheries. The Tunarama event happens every January at Port Lincoln, South Australia. The event also showcases a prawn peeling competition, a search for a Tunarama Ambassador for the year, and the star of the event, the tuna, get tossed having the name of the event popular as the “Home of the World Famous Tuna Toss.”

La Tomatina (Spain)

Every last Wednesday of the month of August, La Tomatina, known as the World’s Biggest Food Fight, is held in the town of Bunol near Valencia, Spain. The town of Bunol currently holds the population of 9,000, and yet, when the festivities come, the people in the town increases in number by up to 400%. This alarmed the local government and limited the attendees up to 20, 000 individuals only since the year 2013.

The start of this huge food fight is indicated by firing water cannons and has more or less an hour to have the place messy and covered with tomatoes. The history of La Tomatina is not official; however, a famous theory goes around that this was a way that the townspeople argued with councilmen.

Cheese Rolling Festival (England)

The Cheese Rolling Festival occurs every Last Monday of May at the Coopers Hill in Gloucester, England. The 90-meter hill is utilized by having a wheel of Double Gloucester cheese, have several extreme participants that are mostly locals from Brockworth, and start to roll the cheese. Anyone who catches theirs before reaching the bottom would keep the item.

However, this was supposedly banned by the local government due to issues regarding the safety of the participants.

Konaki Sumo (Japan)

The old tradition of Japan Involves “konaki” (which means crying) Sumo is held in every month of April. For over 400 years, temples have been celebrating this festival by having sumo wrestlers facing each other, bringing their babies with them, and wait for the kids on which would cry first. If the babies started crying at the same time, the one with the loudest cry wins.

This celebration intends to pray for the baby’s health, and a proverb in their country states “naku ko wa sodatsu” or “crying babies grow fast.”

Monkey Buffet Festival (Thailand)

The locals of Thailand put out 4,000 kilograms of fruit, cakes, sweets, and 3,000 crabs to their star every 25th day of November in Lopburi, Thailand, the monkeys. This crazy festival actually holds no significance in history as its only purpose is increase the number of tourists, which makes it even crazier. 

A festival may be called crazy, but, it is the culture of the people within an area that is celebrated. Do not miss out on participating in one, though, as doing crazy things can be so much fun.