Today is Holi and on this occasion, besides friends, there has been a tradition of forgetting enemies by putting colors on them. Although this time due to Corona epidemic, the color of Holi has faded but a limited number of people are celebrating this festival of colors with each other. The tradition of Holi has been in India but is celebrated in other countries like Holi. In other countries of the world, celebrating like Holi, people play with mud, rotten tomatoes and alcohol etc. Let us see how the unique Holi celebrated in other countries is like this festival of colors.
Boryeong Mud Festival
Boryeong is a town 200 km south of Seoul in South Korea where the Mud Festival is celebrated every year. On this occasion, people mixed with mud shower each other with mud.
La Tomatina
If you have seen ‘Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara’, you will remember a scene in which people have fun and throw rotten tomatoes at each other. The celebration is held in the Valencian city of Buñol.
Songkran
Songkran is celebrated at the beginning of every year in Thailand. On this occasion, people roam the streets and pour ice cold water and paste on each other.
Battle of the oranges
Like La Tomatina, this celebration is also celebrated, the only difference is that orange is used instead of tomato. According to the name, it is a kind of fight. In this biggest fight in Italy, people are divided into two groups and then both groups throw oranges at each other throughout the day.
The Floured ones
Els Enfarinats are celebrated every year in Ibi, Spain. In this, all people attack each other with firecrackers, flour and eggs.
Battle of wine
Competitions for the drinking of wine are held at the Haro Wine Festival, held in the city of Haro in the province of La Rioja, northern Spain. Apart from this, on this occasion there is Batalla de Vino i.e. Battle of Wine in which people pour wine from the bucket on each other.
Garma Festival
The Yothu Yindi Foundation in Gulkula, to the north-east of Arnhem Land in the northern region of Australia, organizes this festival every year. In this, people of the community living here paint and dance in bright colors throughout the day.
Cascamorras
In Spain, a festival like Holi is celebrated in which theft is committed. The people of Baza in Granada, Spain, are painted black from head to foot. He then saves his Virgin Mary’s statue from a resident of the neighboring town of Guadix called Cascamorra. According to tradition, his purpose is to steal the statue.
Switzerland Mud Festival
Paleo is the largest open air music festival in Switzerland. On this occasion, students and festival activists play with mud as a tribute to the anniversary of the Woodstock Music Festival, which took place in New York in 1969.
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