Global Winter Festivals to Celebrate Winter in Style

 

Indians love travelling; for fun, adventure, learning. And probably, escaping harsh winter elements, etc. One season in the year when most people, especially from the west, i.e., Indians and Europeans do travel is the winter season, most probably, to escape its elements.

There’s entirely nothing interesting than visiting your dream destination, arriving safe and enjoying yourself to the latter.

 

 

In this article, we’re going to explore some of the lively global winter festivals, to help you celebrate your winter breaks in style.

Without any further ado, let’s roll back our sleeves and get exploring the best winter festivals to make your holiday a memorable one.

Vernice’s Carnevale.

Boasting impressive parades, five-star entertainment, music and, public and private masquerade balls, Carnevale in Venice, Italy, is arguably one of the biggest winter festivals. It’s done each year and begins forty days before the Easter, and comes to its conclusion on Fat Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday. Among the many features associated with this festival are the Decorative Venetian Masks, of which a jury of international fashion and costume designers, participate in a voting process to cast their votes for the best mask in the last week of this festival.

New Orleans Carnival Season.

Also known as the Mardi Gras, ‘The Greatest Show On Earth.’  This winter fiesta starts officially, on the 6th of January and ends in February, on the day before Ash Wednesday, the Tuesday before Lent.  Flocks of tourists flood the Bourbon street and French quarter, though most of the parades come from the Uptown and Mid-city districts, following the route along St. Charles Avenue and the Canal Street.

Rio’s Carnival.

Held before Lent each year, Rio’s Carnival is a famed world winter festival, and it is considered as one an enormous carnivals around the world. Rio’s Carnival is a one-day event which attracts over 2 million people worldwide who crowds the streets to get treats of fierce dance competitions of rival Samba schools. It’s a recommendation that each Samba school have an overall theme and between 6 to 8 floats. A single school is free to present thousands of participants. The Mardi Gras dates back to the early 1720s.

 

Frozen Dead Guys’ Day.

Based on an ancient story of a Norwegian women, TrygveBauge, and how she came with her dead grandfather; BredoMorstol to the US, preserving and storing him in dry ice and liquid nitrogen respectively, this rare yearly festival is organised and hosted by Nederland, Co.  It’s understood that the town residents brought to the light this freeze-drying corpse in early 1994.

 

During the first full week of March, the town keeps both tourists and locals entertained to; a slow-motion parade, coffin races, snowshoe races, ‘Frozen dead guy’ look-alike contests, and polar plunges for those brave enough to brace the cold swim.

 

The Sapporo Snow Festival.

This widely famed festival is held in Sapporo Japan for seven days in February. It prides itself as one of Japan’s most celebrated and overly distinctive event. The Sapporo snow festival attracts millions of people to visit it mainly, to see the International sculpture contest; to view the beautiful frozen art lying in Odori Park and Susukino. As common with many other winter festivals, a beauty contest is held here yearly to crown a new Susukino queen of Ice.

 

HwacheonSancheoneo Ice Festival.

Visit Hwacheon, in the Gangwon province, South Korea. This virtually, an unrivalled region flaunts itself as the first area in South Korea to freeze out during cold winter periods, and the river gets masked in vast layers of ice. You got to visit this place, to try ice fishing with your bare hands, admire the exhibition of the ice sculptures which takes more than 20 weeks to prepare and to crown it all, savour the raw, and grilled mountain trout. This festival runs for almost the whole month of January.

 

Valencia’s Las Fallas.

Las Fallas, meaning ‘the fires”, is a busy five-day festival attracting over three million flame-loving revellers worldwide. This unique annual festival focuses mainly on creating and destructing puppets. These puppets are specially designed to poke fun at the Spanish celebrities and the corrupt politicians. Often, they also depict satirical scenes and the trending events.

 

The participants of this event set ablaze the puppets on the 18th March at midnight and this particular day is referred to as La Crema. One of the dolls is spared from destruction through a popular vote.  Among the many other activities partaken during this 5-day festival include the: parades, bullfights, around the city and Paella.

 

But Wait, have you thought about Travel Insurance?

 

From the experience of the well-known travellers, travelling is lovely, but it’s more of a bit of fun if you got covered for the risks you are likely to suffer in the course of your journey or expeditions. That’s why it’s almost mandatory for every Indian travelling abroad to get their overseas travel insurance on time before beginning the trips around the globe.

 

Getting these insurance covers is not a big deal because the technological improvements over the decades have simplified almost everything for any tourist who wants to get his/her insurance cover, at the comfort of his/ her seat or bed.  You can easily buy travel insurance online from the comfort of your home in a few clicks of your mouse.

 

It also goes without mentioning that, thousands of Indians experience quite a lot of troubles when holidaying abroad almost yearly.

 

That is why, having the right overseas travel insurance is critical since they will protect you against horror situations like loss of essential travel documents, loss of checked-in baggage, delay in the arrival of pieces of luggage and hiked medical and hospitalisation bills abroad.

 

Conclusion

Winter is the time for warmth and delicious food. It is the time to travel the world and ring in Christmas or New Year at a new place with new people! And, when there are so many winter festivals, scheduled to be taken place around the world, there is no reason to hold yourself back.

So, pack your bags and celebrate winter in style! But don’t forget to buy travel insurance to secure your celebrations!

 

Good luck and Bon Voyage!

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