Fire and Food at Krishna’s Mathura Festival
Every year thousands of followers of the Hindu god Krishna make a pilgrimage to the town of Mathura in Uttar Pradesh to celebrate his birth nearly 3,500 years ago…
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Risque, Racy and Downright Daring: Bay to Breakers Foot Race
The Bay To Breakers is the most famous foot race in San Francisco, often drawing crowds in excess of 100 000 people.
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Nashville of the Antipodes: Boot-scootin’ at the Tamworth Country Music Festival
The festival has its roots in the work of radio station 2TM, which in the 1960’s aired specialist shows to win back audiences who were being wooed away by the advent of television.
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Oom-pah and Ale: The Oktoberfest Beer Festival
The Oktoberfest takes place in the last 2 weeks of September and is the highlight of any beer drinker’s year. Oktoberfest is fast food feeding frenzy. 6,000 chickens, 90,000 pork legs and 80 oxen, and the ever present Umtata bands.
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Journey Guide: Across Bolivia – From the Pantanal to the Pacific
Our Tough Trains episode travels from the Pantanal in Brazil to the Pacific coast in Chile, but mainly passes through Bolivia.
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