Events & Festivals
Discover travel events, festivals, and cultural celebrations around the world.
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.
Best Weather Season
Dry season for exploration
Rambu Solo (Toraja Funeral Ceremony)
Rambu Solo is the elaborate Torajan funeral ceremony of Sulawesi — a days-long rite of music, dance, processions and ritual sacrifice that is among the world's most distinctive cultural spectacles, drawing anthropologists and travellers from around the globe.
Burning Man Festival
An annual gathering in the Nevada desert celebrating art, self-expression, and radical community each August.
Autumn Foliage
Mountain colors
Mid-Autumn Festival China
Families gather under the full moon to share mooncakes and lanterns in this ancient harvest celebration.
Mid-Autumn Moon Festival
Vietnam's beloved Tet Trung Thu fills the streets with colorful lantern processions, mooncakes, and dragon dances celebrating the harvest moon. Children carry star-shaped lanterns through the streets while lion dancers perform to ward off evil spirits.
Mistura Food Festival
Lima's Mistura is Latin America's largest and most celebrated food festival, showcasing the extraordinary diversity of Peruvian cuisine from indigenous ingredients to Japanese-Peruvian nikkei fusion. The ten-day September event draws celebrity chefs, food artisans, and hundreds of thousands of food lovers from around the world.
Oktoberfest
World's largest beer festival
Pchum Ben
Cambodia's Festival of the Dead is a 15-day Buddhist celebration in September and October when Cambodians visit pagodas at dawn to offer food to the spirits of deceased ancestors. Believed to be when the gates of hell open, Pchum Ben is a deeply solemn and important occasion for honoring family lineage across seven generations.