The Cotswold Olimpick Games
Sack races, shin kicking, and misspelled words. It may sound like a scene from the school playground but it is actually a countryside tradition dating back four hundred years.
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Festival
Parading the Tooth Relic: Kandy Esala Perahera
Sri Lanka has a large amount of Buddhist, Hindu, Christian and Muslim festivals and around 26 public holidays a year. The Kandy Esala Perahera is the biggest and most important festival in the country.
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Haiti’s Rara Peasant Carnival
Rara is not just one festival, many towns stage their own Rara celebrations, usually staring in the countryside and heading towards town picking up merry revellers on the way.
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Golden Shears Sheep Shearing Festival
You can’t really talk about New Zealand without mentioning sheep, and this festival is where all the sheep, and all those whose lives revolve around them, get together for a competition and a bit of a knees-up.
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Giants of Douai Festival
Make a trip to Douai, in the Nord-Pas de Calais region of France in early July and you’re likely to bump into a thoroughly ordinarily named couple, Monsieur and Madame Gayant, who just happen to be over twenty feet tall!
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