Austin City Limits Music Festival 2024, Texas
Tyler, Dua Lipa and Chris Stapleton are in town when the state capital of Texas welcomes the Austin City Limits Music Festival on 4-6 and 11-13 October. How to Get…
Lord of Miracles, Señor de los Milagros, Peru
A key moment in Peru’s Catholic calendar, the Lord of Miracles, or Señor de los Milagros in Spanish, is a procession that takes place in Lima each October. Hence its full title La Procesión…
Holi Festival 2025 India and Worldwide
The Hindu Holi Festival is a riotous Hindu celebration where crowds douse each other with colour and water – and is probably India’s most vibrant and fun festival. Holi, the festival of colours…
Things to Do in Derby: from Pubs to Suffragettes
Looking for things to do in Derby, join Mark Bibby Jackson as he has a run in with an anti-suffragette, climbs a steep tower and settles into a pint or…
Maha Kumbh Mela 2025 Prayagraj India
Maha Kumbh Mela or Prayag Kumbh Mela is a phenomenal spectacle of millions of Hindu pilgrims in India who gather every six years to bathe in a sacred river. It is held every six years…
Visit India Camel Beauty Contest with TravelLocal
From 15 – 23 November tens of thousands of camels and their owners will descend on the Thar desert around Pushkar in Rajasthan, India. Once the requisite trading is over, the real fun begins including camel racing…
Witness the Extraordinary Ardh Kumbh Mela, India
Corinthian Travel has created a unique, 10-day itinerary to coincide with the Ardh Kumbh Mela festival, which will take place between 15 January and 4 March 2019. The festival takes place every six years…
Pushkar Camel Fair 2024, India
The Pushkar Camel Fair in November is a fantastic, colourful madhouse where Hindu pilgrims, mystics, cattle traders, entertainers, tourists and camera crews mix with some 30,000…
Harbin Ice Festival China Extravaganza
Once mostly a regional affair, the Harbin Ice Festival, China – or the Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival as it is officially known – has grown into…
Konya Whirling Dervishes Festival 2024
Each December the Turkish city of Konya will host one of the most exquisite ceremonies of spirituality with the mesmerising beauty of the Whirling Dervishes…
Wonderfruit Festival 2024, Thailand
Wonderfruit Festival in December has risen to become one of the most anticipated festivals in Thailand blending music and gastronomy with wellness, art and eco-friendliness…
Discover Lesser-known Festivals This Autumn
From whale watching to hot air balloons and golde eagles, swap the tourist trap events for some more remote festivals across the globe this autumn. Hermanus Whale Festival (28-30 September) …
Gravity Fields Celebrates Sir Isaac Newton
Visitors to Sir Isaac Newton’s home county can celebrate a true global giant thanks to a quirky journey through arts and science in the innovative five-day Gravity Fields festival in…
Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta 2024
If you have seen photos of many vividly coloured balloons gliding across semi-arid scenery there is a good chance that those shots come from the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, which…
Top Autumn Festivals in the South East
The nights might be starting to draw in but there is still plenty to celebrate this autumn across the South East with food, beer and wine festivals offering visitors the…
Sample the Areni Wine Festival, Armenia
With summer slipping away in the UK, plan something upbeat for autumn. Armenians are passionate about their wines, and understandably so: their history of viticulture dates back thousands of years…
Loy Krathong Festival 2024, Thailand
One of Thailand’s most beautiful and beguiling festivals, Loy Krathong is enormously popular with Thais and visitors alike. People flock to lakes and rivers to float their krathongs on the…
Yi Peng Festival 2024, Thailand
The Yi Peng festival, one of Thailand’s most charming and alluring events, is incredibly well-liked by both locals and tourists. The north of the country sees its nightly heavens illuminated…
Get Ready for Staffordshire’s Horn Dance
The Abbots Bromley Horn Dance, performed in Staffordshire since 1226, has survived for almost 800 years, and is now one of the oldest remaining annual rituals in the whole of…
Lindisfarne Festival, 2024, Northumberland
he Vaccines, Orbital, Tom Walker and De La Soul are headlining the Lindisfarne Festival 2024 held at Beal Farm, Northumberland from 29 August to 1 September. Overlooking the majestic Holy…
Bamboo Spreads to Papua New Guinea
The UK’s leading operator to Asia, Bamboo Travel, has launched a new programme to Papua New Guinea with an initial offering of 10 different itineraries that range from 14 to…
Visit Nashville for Country Music Festival
Next summer may seem a long way off, but that’s how far ahead you need to plan if you love country music. Nashville, Tennessee is country music’s official home, and…
Phuket Vegetarian Festival 2024
Thailand is certainly no stranger to everything that’s quirky and out of the ordinary. The Phuket Vegetarian Festival held in autumn – also known under its more Taoist-inspired…
Stay at the Amari for the Phuket Vegetarian Festival
Experience a celebration like no other at Phuket’s annual Vegetarian Festival. Stay at Amari Phuket, located across a jungle-covered hillside with stunning panoramic views across Patong Bay during 8 –…
