| Are you planning to Visit to Asia inside the next year, and
are looking for some fun festivities to attend? Well, look no more
- we’ve researched some of the more unbelievable Asian festivals
for you to check in the period of your travels.
Visit Asia:
Pulilan Carabao Festiva
You’ll likely never see a water buffalo adorned quite such this!
If you visit to Pulilan in the 2nd week of May, you’ll witness the
homage to the patron saint of farmers, San Isidro Labrador.
Families take their treasured water buffalos, scrape away the dirt,
shave them, anoint them in oils, & then parade them around the
town square dressed as kings. The priests of the Asian city then
kneel & ask the buffalos to bless them, assuring health &
good wishes for the upcoming year to all, letting in visiting travelers.
Visit Asia: Parade
of the God of Medicine
On the 15th day of the third lunar month, the city of Taiwan is
take on by this world-renowned Asian festivity - a must for travellers
in the area because of its outstanding parade. At the nucleus of
the 160 temple celebration are Pao Sheng in Taipei and the Temple
of Ching Tzu in Hseuhchia.
Spearheaded by a group known as the Centipedes, believers attending
the town-wide parade throw themselves on the ground to be stepped
upon, as a symbolical exorcising of their daemons.
Travel Asia:
Yasothon Rocket Festival
In the mid of May, things become very noisy for Asian travelers
to the Phaya Thaen Park in Thailand. Historically, the festival
originated as an offering to the gods of the sky, exploding beautiful
rockets to encourage rain for rice crop growth. Nowadays, festival
has become something more of a sport, with competitions to see whose
rocket could fly the farthest, and whose explodes the most.
Travel Asia:
Asakusa Samba
Toyko’s version of the Rio Carnaval occurs each Aug, in the Asakusa
zone. Travelers to Asia & natives alike are astonished by the
colorful sequined costumes and feathers of the dancing Samba girls,
along with their full bands march down the street alongside them.
Visit Asia:
The Festival of the Hungry Ghosts
Hong Kong hosts this unusual yearly event, held on the 14th day
of the 7th moon (sometime in August, during a full-of-the-moon).
Legend says that the gates of Hades were opened on this daytime,
and the dead who cannot rest were left to run the roads mischievously.
The Yue Lan Festival, as it is known in Chinese, has natives of
the town putting up odd paper monuments all over the roads, which
are then ceremoniously burned on the last day.
Visit Asia:
The Monkey God Festival
The Monkey God first came along in Chinese literature during the
Ming Dynasty in the book, “Pilgrims to the West”. Since then, this
deity has been celebrated in the period of the month of September
at Kowloon’s Sau Mau Ping Temple, by recreating a eccentric attempted
execution by extra the additional gods - which lets in such as things
as a ladder of knives, & charcoal set on fire.
Travelers to this unusual Asian celebration need not be caring,
although - the Monkey God lived, & so do the participants in
this celebration.
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