Veranstaltungen & Festivals

Hoi An Lantern Festival

On the 14th day of each lunar month, Hoi An's ancient town turns off its electric lights and glows entirely by the light of hundreds of colorful silk lanterns floating on the Thu Bon River. The monthly festival preserves a tradition dating back centuries and creates an enchanting atmosphere throughout the UNESCO heritage town.

Carnival Peru

Peru's carnival season in February and March varies by region, from the water balloon battles of Lima to the elaborate dances and costumes of Cajamarca, considered Peru's carnival capital. The Andean regions celebrate with traditional yunza tree ceremonies and the unique Huayno music that fills mountain towns with festive energy.

Carnival Portugal

Portugal's carnival season features spectacular celebrations, with Torres Vedras hosting the most authentic Portuguese carnival and Loulé in the Algarve presenting a flower-filled Mediterranean-style parade. The festivities include satirical floats, elaborate costumes, and traditional entrudo celebrations rooted in centuries of Portuguese culture.

Carnival Veracruz

Veracruz hosts one of Latin America's most exuberant carnivals, with dazzling parades of floats, elaborate costumes, and nonstop dancing in the streets along the Gulf of Mexico. The week-long pre-Lenten celebration is famous for its Caribbean-influenced music, the mock burning of "Bad Humor," and joyful street parties.

Cologne Carnival

Cologne's three-day street carnival is one of Europe's biggest parties, famed for costumes and "Jecken" revelry.

Croatia Carnival

Croatia's carnival season features the Rijeka Carnival, one of Europe's largest and most flamboyant, with a massive international parade of over 10,000 costumed participants winding through the city streets. The two-week February festivities include masked balls, children's parades, and the symbolic burning of the pust (carnival effigy).

Greek Apokries Carnival

Greece's pre-Lenten carnival season culminates in the Apokries celebrations, with the most famous in Patras where elaborate floats and costumed revelers fill the streets in one of Europe's largest carnivals. The three-week festivities include masquerade balls, street parties, and the spectacular burning of the carnival king.

New Orleans Mardi Gras

The world-famous Mardi Gras in New Orleans features elaborate parades, masked balls, and a carnival atmosphere.

Nice Carnival

One of the world's largest carnivals, held in Nice each February with extravagant parades of giant floats, confetti battles, and flower parades along the Promenade des Anglais. The two-week celebration draws nearly a million visitors with its spectacular artistry and festive atmosphere.

Bali Nyepi

Cherry Blossom Season

Japan's iconic sakura viewing season

Dublin St Patrick's Day

Easter Week Portugal

Portugal's Semana Santa (Holy Week) features some of Iberia's most moving processions, with Braga hosting the most famous celebrations including the dramatic Ecce Homo procession by torchlight. Churches across the country present elaborate passion plays and the air fills with incense and solemn music during these deeply spiritual days.

Eid Al Fitr Morocco

Morocco's Eid Al Fitr celebrations blend Islamic tradition with Moroccan cultural heritage, filling mosques and city squares with communal prayers followed by elaborate family feasts featuring traditional pastilla and b'stilla. The festive atmosphere extends through the medinas with special markets, traditional music, and joyful gatherings.

Eid Al Fitr UAE

Eid Al Fitr marks the end of Ramadan with three days of joyful celebration across the UAE, featuring communal prayers, family gatherings, charitable giving, and festive meals. Shopping malls, parks, and public spaces host entertainment events, and the entire country is adorned with colorful lights and decorations.

Holi Festival of Colors

India's exuberant spring festival transforms streets and plazas into a riot of color as people chase each other with fistfuls of vibrant gulal powder and water-filled balloons. Originating as a harvest celebration, Holi is now a nationwide festival of joy, forgiveness, and the victory of good over evil.

Holi Nepal

Nepal's Holi festival marks the arrival of spring with two days of exuberant color throwing, water fights, and street celebrations across the country. The festival in Kathmandu's Basantapur Durbar Square is particularly spectacular, with thousands gathering to smear each other with vibrant powdered pigments.

Las Fallas Valencia

Valencia's spectacular Las Fallas festival fills the city with enormous satirical papier-mâché sculptures called fallas, which are set ablaze in the grand Cremà on the final night. The five-day March festival is a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage, featuring fireworks, parades, and floral offerings.

Lisbon Fado Night

Melbourne Food & Wine Festival

The Melbourne Food and Wine Festival is one of the world's great culinary events, celebrating Victoria's extraordinary food and wine culture with hundreds of events across ten days in March. From intimate winemaker dinners to the spectacular World's Longest Lunch, the festival attracts leading chefs and food lovers from around the globe.

Nyepi Balinese New Year

Bali's Day of Silence is a unique Hindu New Year celebration where the entire island shuts down for 24 hours of meditation, fasting, and self-reflection. The day before Nyepi features spectacular Ogoh-Ogoh parade of giant demon effigies that are burned to cleanse negative spirits.

Ramadan Iftar Season

Turkey's Ramadan season transforms city squares into communal gathering spaces where thousands break their daily fast together at elaborate iftar tables set up by municipalities. The evenings come alive with special food markets, traditional entertainment, and the beautiful call to prayer echoing from historic mosques.

Spring Flowers

Cherry blossoms and spring flowers

Spring in UK

Spring flowers in gardens and parks