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myLot reputation of 99/100. greenline (4001)   ranked 910 out of 34,875 in people6 months ago

I was visitng Thailand a few years ago, and I had the opportunity to go to Chiangmai, a beautiful City in the north. It just happened to be in the month of April during the Water Festival time, the cultural new year festival! Oh, I was so impressed, everyone taking part in the festival, pouring water on everybody and having a lot of fun. I partcipated in the that too, pouring water on everyone! That was one of the most joyful and impressive festivals I have seen.
How about for you? Which has been the impressive festival for you? And, where was it?

 
 
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1. myLot reputation of 98/100. sweetie1026 (1037)   ranked 1,030 out of 34,875 in people   6 months ago

Hi, i have never been to India but i have seen it on movies and on tv, the Festival of Colors. Where people throws this powder of different colors on everyone, i think it is a celebration of the changing of seasons. But here in my country we have a festival almost the same as what you have written about. It is on June 24 feast day of St. John the Baptist and people in towns and cities who have him as their Patron Saint, celebrate it by pouring water on each other.It is a very joyful celebration, then they have a fluvial parade for the culmination of the feast.


myLot reputation of 99/100. greenline (4001)   ranked 910 out of 34,875 in people  6 months ago

Hello Sweetie. Good morning to you. Yes, it is so interesting to see how different cultures celebrate and enjoy festivals in their special unique ways.


myLot reputation of 88/100. yugasini (1358)   ranked 1,136 out of 34,875 in people  6 months ago

hi Sweetie,

i am new to you, this comment for your response of throwing colour on others, i think you might have seen Holi festival in many Hindi movies of India, holi is celebrating in north india and Hyderabad,Bangalore,Chennai may in Tiruvananthapuram,the business community in those places, shut down their shops and participate in the Holi festival, throwing of colour powder/colour water on others, so you are watching Hindi movies,


myLot reputation of 98/100. sweetie1026 (1037)   ranked 1,030 out of 34,875 in people  6 months ago

hi,

I have seen it on a movie titled Outsourced, if i am not mistaken. About a guy who gets to work in Mumbai as Chief of a call center. also, i have seen it on Natgeo or maybe Travel & Living,i have forgotten exactly which show. But i do love it because it is so wonderful and colorful. Thank you for the comment. Nice to meet you. Sorry, i didn't get to see your comment earlier. Must have missed my alerts.

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2. myLot reputation of 93/100. oyenkai (3281)   ranked 646 out of 34,875 in people   6 months ago

I had been to Thailand a few years ago but I missed the festival you are referring to. That seems like something similar to a Philippine festival - it's in San Juan on the month of June, I think.

I don't really know what the best festival I have attended, which I consider the best. I guess it's the New Year's day we celebrate with firecrackers and good food every year:) Oh and I also like it when my Chinese friends celebrate Chinese new year and they bring Tikoy treats for us:D

Thanks for the response on my discussion!


myLot reputation of 99/100. greenline (4001)   ranked 910 out of 34,875 in people  6 months ago

How are you? Yes, Chinese communities celebrate the Chinese New Year in very grand and joyful ways. I have seen some too, very impressive indeed!

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3. myLot reputation of 71/100. siddharthjeevan (399)   ranked 11,405 out of 34,875 in people   6 months ago

To me the most impressive festival is the rio carnivale. it happens once a year at Rio. People party all night long and the entire town witness it. Thousands of people participate in it and the floats in the festival are amazing to watch


myLot reputation of 99/100. greenline (4001)   ranked 910 out of 34,875 in people  6 months ago

I have seen the Rio Carnivale on the TV a few times. Yes, indeed, this is a very impressive, colorful, and glamorous festival. Very very impressive indeed. The participation of the people is really admirable!

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4. myLot reputation of 88/100. yugasini (1358)   ranked 1,136 out of 34,875 in people   6 months ago

hi Greenline,

Thailand, thanks for your experience with Chiangmai, here "Dussera", i think you might know about Dussera, a festival comming before Divali, in that festival, we use to pouring Colour water on everybody, having a lot of fun, i have also participated long back, most enjoyable cultural of pouring colour water on everybody.


myLot reputation of 99/100. greenline (4001)   ranked 910 out of 34,875 in people  6 months ago

Yes, I have seen pictures of Dussera Festival. That is a religious festival, right? Very graceful and colorful!

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5. myLot reputation of 98/100. cyrus123 (1585)   ranked 5,033 out of 34,875 in people   6 months ago

It sounds like you really had a lot of fun at this festival! My parents, sister, and I went to New Orleans in 1978 around the latter part of October. They had a regular Halloween party on Bourbon Street, which my sister and I went to. w00t Daddy was on the Real Estate Commission in Alabama at the time and we were there for a convention. My parents didn't go to the party but some people with the convention went with us. We didn't dress up like anything but you wouldn't believe what all those people dressed up like down there!shockedglare It was fun, though. Kathy.

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6. myLot reputation of 88/100. tigeruncle (897)   ranked 7,119 out of 34,875 in people   6 months ago

Hello my place has tons of festival around the year. As Hindu we have to observe many festivals every month. Right now we are obseving one in which god Shiva weds goddess Parvati. We also obseve Diwali, Dashhara . Another is Holi the festival of colors.
Cheers
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7. myLot reputation of 70/100. narvzgarrison (199)   ranked 13,644 out of 34,875 in people   6 months ago

I wish i can go to thailand too because i've heard it's a very nice place, the beach and so many beautiful views. Unfortunately, i never have a funniest experience with festival coz i don't attend festival a lot especially when it's hot. But i did have an experience where everyone's walking on the street dancing, and everybody wears weird clothes and had tatoos painted on their bodies. We call it in the Philippines as Sinulog festival. I think a lot of people from all over the world known about his party because it is a religious festival devoted for the sto. Ñino of Cebu for being miraculous.Many foreign people along with Filipinos walk together and enjoying the street dancing where the dancers are carrying image of the saint and show it to all the people. The dress worn were also very very impressive because it is a competition party with groups of people coming from different islands. Even if it's very hot but because of so much fun to see, you can ignore the temperature of the sun.It is rain or shine with a lot of fun.

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