Strangest celebrations and festivals around the world .. The story behind each photo
1 Holiday hit neighbors Tinku Ritual - Bolivia
Celebrates Bolivia in May each year, and the back story of this holiday to one of the myths that still believes the Bolivians, so I ordered the goddess Albatchamama the people of Bolivia to attend her blood, so as to ensure them the quality of the crop, but the people of Bolivia dealt with the demand professionalism, and the result was a celebration Bolivians each year hosted six centuries ago, and setting up battles that sometimes ends in death.
2 Buffet monkeys - Thailand
Celebrates Thailand end of the last week of November, as they called the holiday feast monkeys, the people of Thailand calls monkeys that live in the jungle village of Lop Buri, known Bhrahtha, and who used to harass visitors to the jungle, to eat a feast of fresh fruit and vegetables, and launched Thailand this celebration in 1989, where he saw Thais that the best way to deal with the monkeys Almthren harassment is contain them, and are in the banquet provide nearly 3 thousands kind of fruits and vegetables for the monkeys, and provides for the monkeys at Sam Yot temple other meals include coconut, peanuts, cucumber, raw and cancers, and some
Refreshing drinks as Coca-Cola.
3 Thaipusam Festival - Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, southern India, Tibet
Wondrous and painful Festival and not for the faint of heart, celebrated by Hindus when the full moon between January / February each year
The Hindu devotees and the hole forms their bodies were wreaking havoc, according to their beliefs as it endured the biggest pain you will get more blessings, so find some overstates the hole his body to the point of setting a small pipe across his cheeks.
4 Celebrate El Colacho - Spain
This holiday is also known as a remote children jumped This festival is held every year in the Spanish town called Castrillo de Murcia
And any child born during the 12 months preceding the festival are brought and placed on a large pad jumps Men town above them
On the grounds that this will bring them good luck the rest of their lives.
5 Throwing Tomato Festival "Tomatina" - Spain
It is an annual tradition held in August of each year in Spain and used hundreds of tons of very ripe tomatoes by the people Petrashgaha among themselves and is the biggest battle using tomatoes in the world will continue for a week.
No one knows the reference of this holiday, or causes, but it is believed that the debut was in the period between 1944 and 1945, and is not certain also whether the celebration has launched for the first time for the St. Louis Bertrand, as a form of objection to the religious order, or is it just a whim drift its citizens, having been involved in a similar reaction after carrying tomatoes cart coup.
