Last time we spoke about five odd but super fun sounding festivals held around the world. Today we continue that topic with five more crazy awesome festivals. Which one would you attend?
These Redneck Games look very refreshing and fun!
6. The Redneck Games
This festival was created out of the offense taken by media implications that the 1996 Olympic games in Atlanta would be hosted by a bunch of “rednecks”. The redneck games include classics such as “bobbing for pig’s trotters” and “toilet seat throwing.”
Are you thinking of Mulan and King of the Mountain right now? I am.
7. Hadaka Matsuri
A Japanese festival born out of a Buddhist practice in which they purified their spirits, it is now known as the “naked man festival.” Thousands of men in loincloths gather on one of the coldest nights of the year to join in the celebration.
I can’t imagine wanting to attend this – The noise! One crying baby is one too many!
8. Crying Baby Festival
This festival is centered around two sumo wrestlers who hold up a pair of babies. The winner is the baby that cries first. The festival celebrates the Japanese saying, “crying babies grow fast.”
I vote we hold a Sonkran Water Festival with all these hot temperatures!
9. Sonkran Water Festival
Thailand holds this festival every year for three days, in which everyone participates in a giant water fight. Doesn’t that just sound inviting with all the record breaking temperatures out in the midwest right now? I vote yes.
Add some strange sound effects and we got a winner! Meeep!
10. World Gurning Championships
Taking place in Egremont, Cumbria, this festival celebrates making ugly faces. Whoever makes the ugliest face wins! So what do you say is this a face only a mother could love?
Read the first part again: The 10 Wildest Little Known Festivals in the World (Part 1)
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