among the festivals celebrated by some of asian

Ahoi Ashtami. 2022. 1. 13. · When it comes to celebrating festivals, the toughest task at hand is to actually figure out the exact date when the Indian festival can be celebrated. This is because the. Muslim festivals are observed throughout the country. In India, Muslims account for 13% of the population. They are dispersed throughout a large Michael Aquino. Updated on 06/26/19. The most popular festivals in Southeast Asia originate from a wide variety of religious and cultural traditions. The Buddhist worldview inspires Songkran and Vesak. The Taoist tradition celebrates Chinese New Year and the Hungry Ghost Festival. The Muslims celebrate the month-long Ramadan fasting season and With thousands of traditional Asian festivals to choose from, we hope this list inspires you to get involved in the celebrations and book your next trip to coincide with one of the holidays celebrated in Asia every year. Festivals in India 1. Holi 2. Diwali (Deepvali) 3. Durga Puja 4. Pushkar Camel Fair Festivals in Cambodia 5. Chaul Chnam Shark Taronalari festival takes place every summer in Samarkand between 25th and 30th of August. The festival was started with the aim to preserve until present times the culture, art and unique architecture of the ancient world civilizations. This is one of the biggest music festival in Central Asia. In China, the Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most important traditional festivals. To celebrate it, people will have a meal together on the evening of 15th day of the 8th lunar month. They also light lanterns or candles to wish for peace in their lives. How to Celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival Right model baju batik untuk orang kurus agar terlihat gemuk. The Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated in several Southeast and Northeast Asian countries, especially among those of Chinese descent. The celebration is on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, which is the middle of the autumn season the autumn season being the seventh, eighth, and ninth lunar months. In the Gregorian calendar, the festival falls sometime around mid- to late September, or early October. Let's take a look at how this holiday is observed in different countries. China Zhongqiu Jie The festival is set aside to enjoy the "successful reaping of rice and wheat in a busy agricultural year." Originally, it was an outdoor festival for thanksgiving and pleasure after heavy farming labors. Altars were set up in family courtyards under the moon. Offerings of melons, cakes, and pomegranates and other fruit were presented in honor of the moon. Today, it is a time for friends and families to gather together, to enjoy a big dinner, to eat moon cakes Yuebing, to sip tea, and to watch the moon with a perfectly round shape symbolizing "familial harmony and unity." There have been many well-known poems, paintings and writings about the clear and bright moon of the Mid-autumn Day, expressing homesickness from travelers or those far away from home. The round shape of moon cakes is another symbol of family fillings of moon cakes include date paste, smashed bean, walnut, cassia bloom, egg yolk, salted meat, melon seeds and lotus seed paste. In Chinese mythology, Goddess Chang E lives lonely in the lunar "Palace of Great Cold." She was separated from her husband Hou Yi after she swallowed the elixir of life, which her husband received from the Queen Mother of the West. Her rabbit accompanies her and is pounding the elixir of immortality with a mortar and pestle. Another inhabitant of the moon is the wood cutter Wu Gang. He was sentenced by the Jade Emperor to chop down a cassia tree seen as the giver of life which can magically heal itself and thus he can never make any progress. Mooncakes and Hungry Ghosts by ISBN 0835124819Publication Date 1992-01-01An outstanding introduction to the variety of popular Chinese festivals, including Lunar New Year, Dragon Boat, Mid-Autumn, Qingming, and many more. Illustrated throughout, this book contains color photos, appendices, glossary, bibliography and index. Vietnam Tet Trung Thu The full moon of the eighth lunar month symbolizes fertility. Originally, people prayed for a "bountiful harvest and a multiplication of all living things." In early twentieth century, this festival was an opportunity for young men and women to find their future life companions, or for young ladies to exhibit their handiwork and talents. Over time, the festival transformed into a celebration for children. Children receive gifts of toys, and enjoy cakes, fruit and rice paste molded in the shapes of animals. They parade with lanterns in the form of five-pointed stars like those on the national flag, or with masks representing animals or characters from movies, comic books and anime. Handcrafted shadow lanterns used to be an important part of the festival displays. But many have been replaced by batter-powered plastic ones. Paper scholar, a figure "dressed in the cap and robe of a court official" from ancient times, is a traditional gift to children, intending to inspire the kids to "achieve great things in life." Singapore People gather at home to "admire the full moon while drinking tea and sampling mooncakes." Chinese Singaporeans exchange moon cakes as gifts. In additional to traditional moon cakes, some new varieties have emerged, such as the Bloody Mary Snow Skin and Cranberry Cheese. At night, children will roam around with lanterns of different shapes and sizes. Tourists can visit Chinatown to enjoy street lightings and bazaars and get immersed in the festive atmosphere. Korea Chuseok Harvest Moon Festival is a three-day holiday in Korea and is often called the Korean version of Thanksgiving Day. It is a time when rice and other autumn crops are harvested, and fruits ripen. Koreans will visit the graves of their ancestors in their hometown and present a bountiful offering table filled with rice cake, rice wine and fresh fruits. They will remove weeds around the graves that have grown over summer, a ritual named "Beolcho." After dusk, families and friends will gather and enjoy the beauty of the full harvest moon or play folk games such as Ganggangsullae Korean circle dance. Gifts are exchanged among friends and relatives. Traditional Chuseok food includes steamed rice, rice cakes, and liquor, made from newly harvested rice. Malaysia Family gather under the full autumn moon to celebrate unity and enjoy moon cakes. Varieties of moon cakes are sold in special counters of shopping malls. Dragon dance, lion dance, float parade and lantern procession activities are held. Thailand Moon Worship Festival At the night of the 15th of the lunar eighth month, the statues of Guanyin Godness of Mercy, กวนอิม and the Eight Immortals โป๊ยเซียน are set up on the altars. Offerings include peach-shaped cakes and moon cakes. People believe the Eight Immortals will bring peach-shaped cakes to the moon and celebrate Guanyin's birthday there. After birthday celebration, Guanyin and the Eight Immortals will descend a lot of blessings to people living on the earth. Chinese communities are decorated with lanterns and children will play and stroll around with lanterns in their hands. Egg-yolk lotus seed paste moon cake is the most popular variety in market. Durian moon cake is a very unique variety that deserves a try. Philippines The Moon Festival or Autumn Festival is celebrated by moon cake exchanges among friends, relatives and neighbors. China towns and Chinese communities are decorated with lanterns and colorful banners. Dragon dance, lantern procession, and float parade are popular activities. A game of chance/dice named the mooncake game is played by both Chinese and Filipinos. Japan Tsukimi. 月見 Japanese Moon-viewing Festival has a recorded history of more than one thousand years. The ceremony serves as a prayer for a rich harvest of crops, an admiration to the moon, and a nexus between the aesthetic and spiritual. Japanese pampas grass is used for decoration and and dango rice dumplings are used in the ceremony. Image attributions Luyện tập tổng hợp lý thuyết trắc nghiệm hỏi đáp bài tập sgk Câu hỏi E1 among the festivals celebrated by some of Asian people is the Moon Cake Festival, also known as the Mid August Festival. Large numbers of small round moon cake are eaten on this day, and children enjoy carrying colorful paper lanterns come in all shapes; the most popular ones are shaped like fish, rabbits and butterflies. According to them, the moon shines the brightest on the night of the Moon Cake Festival. As the moon rises, tables are placed outside the house and women make offerings of fruit and moon cakes to the Moon Goddess. Questions the Moon Cake Festival also called Mid August Festival ? do people often eat on that day ? do chidren enjoy doing? is the moon on the night of the Moon Cake festival ? the Moon Cake Festival only clebrated in Viet Nam ? are offered to the Moon Goddess ? according are numbers as enjoy by ones rises Among the festival calebrated 1_______ some of Asian people is the Moon Cake Festival, also known 2______ the Mid-August Festival. Large 3_______ of small round moon cakes 4________ eaten on this day, and children 5________ carrying colourful paper lanterns come in all shapes; the more popular 6_________ are shaped like fish, rabbits, and butterflies. 7_______ to them the moon shines brightest on the night of the Mo...Đọc tiếp Xem chi tiết Fill in each black in the following passage with ONE suitable word from the box according are numbers as enjoy by ones rises Among the festivals celebrated 1............... some of Asian people is the Moon Cake Festival, also know 2............ the Mid-August Festival Large 3..................... of small round moon cakes 4 ............... eaten on this day, and children 5............. carrying colourful paper lanterns come in all shapes...Đọc tiếp Xem chi tiết Điền từ thích hợp Plot, cakes, fifteenth, who, around, tells, celebrate, shapes, to, carrying. Among the festivals celebrated by the Chinese is the Moon Cake Festival, also known as the Mid - Autumn Festival. Large numbers of small round moon 1 _______ are eaten on this day, and the children enjoy 2 _______ colourful paper lanterns. These paper lanterns come in all 3 _______ like fish, rabbits and butterflies. There are many stories as to the origin of this festival. One popular tale ...Đọc tiếp Xem chi tiết Mid-Autumn is the day when the moon is at itsbrightest in a year. In that spirit, 1..................,people in Viet Nam as well as many Asian countries celebrate the Mid-Autumn s Festival.2.....................to legends,this holiday is orginated 3...................in which an Emperor of Duong Dynasty, Duong Minh Hoang,was taken to the moon by a wizard named La Cong Vien. 4............of his trip to the Duong Minh Hoang was back to earth, he taught his 5.................abo...Đọc tiếpMid-Autumn is the day when the moon is at itsbrightest in a year. In that spirit, 1..................,people in Viet Nam as well as many Asian countries celebrate the Mid-Autumn 's Festival.2.....................to legends,this holiday is orginated 3...................in which an Emperor of Duong Dynasty, Duong Minh Hoang,was taken to the moon by a wizard named La Cong Vien. 4............of his trip to the Duong Minh Hoang was back to earth, he taught his 5.................about the celebration and it became a custom lasting 6....................Through times and times,Mid-Autumn's Festival 70......................becomes . Xem chi tiết Write full sentences to make a letter, using the suggested words and phrases given Dear Lucy, How are you ? 1. In / your / email / you / said / that / you / wanted / know / about / popular / festival / in / Viet Nam / . 2. There / a lot of / festivals / my / country / such as / boat racing / buffalo - fighting / folk song / singing / etc / but / I / going / tell / you / about / the Mid - Autumn Festival / . 3. The Mid - Autumn Festival / like / your / Thanksgiving / . / Families / get /...Đọc tiếp Xem chi tiết II. Read the text carefully, then do the tasks. Holi, known as the festival of colours, is the Hindu festival celebrated by Hindus all over Asia and also by the people from some parts of Europe and North America. It is mainly observed in India and Nepal. Holi commemorates the victory of good over evil, marks the arrival of Spring, and a time to give thanks for the good harvest. The dates change each year according to the full moon, but it is normally in March and sometimes in late February and...Đọc tiếp Xem chi tiết II. Read the text carefully, then do the tasks. Holi, known as the festival of colours, is the Hindu festival celebrated by Hindus all over Asia and also by the people from some parts of Europe and North America. It is mainly observed in India and Nepal. Holi commemorates the victory of good over evil, marks the arrival of Spring, and a time to give thanks for the good harvest. The dates change each year according to the full moon, but it is normally in March and sometimes in late February and...Đọc tiếp Xem chi tiết answer the questions to children , mid -autumn festival is the most joyful celebration. it is held in vietnam on the 15th day of the 8th lunar this day, children usually receive many gifts or banh trung thua special kind of cakesfrom their parents,their relatives and even from some certain organnizations for their good study night, they often parade on the streets while singing and carrying colorful star lanters . 1. when is mid-autumn festival held in vietnam? do...Đọc tiếp Xem chi tiết The students are study at the school library at the moment ABCD Do you eat moon cakes at the festival last year? ABCD The best part of the Mid_ autumn festival is the perform of luôn dances ABCD He got up hệ went to work late ABCD Xem chi tiết If your backpacking trip to Southeast Asia coincides with a festival – you’re in luck! Festivals in this part of the world are like nothing that you’ve ever seen before. From the planet’s biggest water fight in Thailand Songkran, to the gruesome piercings and self mutilations of the Hindu festival, Thaipusam, festivals in Southeast Asia are a cultural experience like no other. Have you got your camera at the ready? Also see – Southeast Asian Events Calendar. A month-by-month guide to festivals in Southeast Asia. Pick of the Best Festivals in Southeast Asia1. Songkran – Thailand April2. Loi Krathong – Thailand November3. Nyepi – Bali March 4. Tet – Vietnam February5. Thaipusam – Malaysia January 6. Boun Bang Fai Rocket Festival – Laos April7. Naga Fire Ball Festival – Nong Khai, Thailand November8. Phuket Vegetarian Festival – Thailand October10. Bon Om Tuk Khmer Water Festival – Cambodia November 11. Holi – India – March Pick of the Best Festivals in Southeast Asia 1. Songkran – Thailand April Can you imagine how exciting this festival would have been when you were a child? Well, it’s time to release your inner child as you prepare for to experience the world’s biggest water fight! Three whole days of wild and watery mayhem take place across the entire country during the middle of April in Thailand. Nobody and we mean nobody! is exempt from a drenching. People, young and old, take to the streets armed with water pistols, super soakers, buckets of ice-cold water and even industrial hoses! Songkran Festival, Thailand. The Songkran Festival actually celebrates the Buddhist New Year in Thailand and its roots lie in a rather gentler ritual. In fact, if you head to the temple in the morning of Songkran, or a few days before the festival, you may see this ritual still taking place as people splash water over each other and wash Buddhist statues in a symbolic cleansing ritual’ to bring in the New Year. As in many parts of the world, where people make New Year’s resolutions and start afresh in the New Year, the idea is to cleanse the sins of the previous years and start the new one with a fresh plate. So get out there and cleanse those sins! Luckily, the festival takes place at the hottest time of year, so the water is a welcoming treat in Thailand’s scorching temperatures. Chiang Mai and Bangkok are some of the best places to experience Songkran, as tourists and locals take to the streets in colourful shirts and battle it out. Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar have similar festivals in accordance with the Buddhist New Year. Read more about Songkran here. 2. Loi Krathong – Thailand November This is one of my favourite festivals in Southeast Asia and one of the most beautiful festivals I’ve ever been to in the world! On the night of the full moon in November many festivals centre around the full moon in Asia, people gather in the streets to release paper lanterns into the sky. Krathong is the word for lantern in Thai. The idea is to release their durkha’, or suffering, sending their worries high into the sky. And, as well as lanterns, people also float boats on rivers and lakes all over the country. Some people place locks of hair, old photographs or notes onto the boats in a symbolic act of releasing a part of their past that they want to move on from, and set them to sail. Loi Krathong Festival, Thailand. In Chiang Mai, the festival is also known as Yi Peng Lantern Festival. There’s also a huge lantern releasing event taking place at Mae Jo University a few days before the official start of Loi Krathong. For photographers, the event is a must attend! 3. Nyepi – Bali March At this festival you won’t hear any music, nor cheers nor laughter from people on the street. In fact, at this unique festival in Bali, you actually won’t hear anything at all! Nyepi, which takes place every year on March 9th, is Bali’s annual Day of Silence. The festival is unique to the Hindu culture of Bali and commemorates the Isakawarsa’ New Year. For 24 hours, starting at 6am, you’ll find shops, restaurants, bars, and even Bali’s International Airport, closed as people spend the day in silence, fasting or meditating. Bali’s normally bustling streets are found empty apart from a few security men who make sure that people are adhering to the rules of the day. Silence day in Bali, Nyepi Festival. The idea of the festival is to give time for self-reflection and if you’re a traveller in Bali at the time of Nyepi, you too are not exempt from the restrictions. No one is allowed on the beach or in the streets and are advised to say inside your hotel room. A boring day for some, but a very interesting day culturally. Why not take time for some self-reflection yourself? The day after Nyepi, known as Ngembak Geni, is the official Balinese New Year’s Day and people are back on the streets bringing them to life once more. If you’re lucky, you’ll see many young unmarried people taking part in the Kissing Ritual’, Omed Omedan, a ceremony dating back 100 years which is a kind of match-making ceremony for the young people of Bali. Read more about Bali here. 4. Tet – Vietnam February Tet, or Vietnamese New Year is the biggest event in the Vietnamese Calendar. The longer name for the festival is Tet Nguyen Dan, which means The Feast of the First Morning of the First Day’. The festival shares many similarities with the Chinese New Year, which happens at the same time. Many people will clean the house before Tet and cook special food such as bamboo soup and sticky rice. Children are given lucky red envelopes containing money and it’s also seen as a very auspicious time to pay off an old debt, settle an old feud, start something new or open a business. Lanterns for Tet Festival in Vietnam. If you’re travelling in Vietnam at this time, you’ll see the shops filled with red paper lanterns and selling moon cakes. On the night of the full moon people take to the streets and make as much noise as they possibly can, using drums, fireworks, fire crackers, gongs and any other noisy instrument they can find. As with Chinese New Year, you’ll see people dancing in masks and muan lan’ or lion dancing. The idea is to ward off evil spirits which may be hanging around ready to invade the new year. Check out more Vietnam Festivals here! 5. Thaipusam – Malaysia January One of the most shocking of the festivals in Southeast Asia, Thaipusam taking place every January, is not for the feint-hearted. The festival is held in honour of the Hindu God of war, Lord Murugan, son of Shiva and Parvarti and is celebrated by Hindus all over the world. No Strings Attached, Two Men Drag a Cart By Strings Hooked To Their Backs at Thaipusam. One of the best places to witness the festival is in Malaysia’s multi-cultural capital, Kuala Lumpur, where an annual procession takes place from the city to the famous Batu Caves, on the outskirts. Millions of pilgrims make the walk, which starts at midnight, arriving at the caves in the early hours of the morning. Finally, they climb the 272 steps to the mouth of the caves, where a huge statue of Lord Murugan watches over them. The most intense part of the festival is the kavadi attam’, which translates as the burden dance’. Devotees perform elaborate acts as a demonstration of their devotion to Lord Murugan, including piercing the skin or tongue with skewers, or dragging a heavy chariot by metal hooks pierced into the flesh. You will also see many people carrying a heavy kavadi’ around their bodies as they walk up towards the caves. The atmosphere is intense and at times rather frightening as some of the devotees appear to be in a trance while they perform their rituals. 48 days before the day itself people begin to prepare for Thaipusam through prayer and fasting. During this time many people, especially new babies, have their heads shaved, and you’ll see many couples carrying their new-borns up the steps to say thank you to Lord Murugan for bestowing them with a child the year before. 6. Boun Bang Fai Rocket Festival – Laos April Celebrated by Laotian people along with people from Isaan north eastern Thailand, which historically used to be a part of Laos, Boun Bang Fai Rocket is one of the craziest festivals in Southeast Asia! The Rocket Festival of Laos. The festival takes place over three days featuring all the usual floats, music and dance performances. However, the third day is when the fun really starts. On this day, the locals get to show off the homemade rockets that they’ve been building and there’s a competition held to see who can fire their rocket highest in the sky! There’s a healthy atmosphere of competition and you won’t believe some of the elaborate creations on show – watch out NASA! The idea of the festival derives from an ancient belief in provoking the Rain God into make water fall from the sky onto the crops following the dry season in this region. The festival is a must attend for anyone travelling around the villages of Laos and rural Thailand. Read more about Laos here. 7. Naga Fire Ball Festival – Nong Khai, Thailand November Definitely one of the most mysterious festivals in Southeast Asia, the Naga Fireball Festival centres around a rather strange phenomenon, occurring every November along the Mekong River that separates Laos from Thailand. Glowing red and orange balls of fire are said to rise from the river hundreds of metres into the air. The balls are believed to be created by the Phaya Naga’, a serpent like deity derived from Buddhist and Hindu mythology, who allegedly dwells in the depths of the Mekong River. Statues of the Naga can be found in several places around the town of Nong Khai and across Thailand. A statue of the naga’ in Thailand. Thousands of people claim to have witnessed the great balls of fire, whilst many claim it is just a clever hoax. Some have suggested that the effect is created by soldiers firing tracer rounds into the air on the other side of the border. Others have suggested that it is caused as the result of a natural flammable substance in the water. Elaborate trick or unexplained mystery? You’ll have to visit to make your own mind up! Read more about things to do in Nong Khai here. Check out more festivals in Southeast Asia November 8. Phuket Vegetarian Festival – Thailand October The name of this festival is somewhat misleading. It seems to suggest a gathering of vegetarians tucking into some fresh, healthy fruit and vegetables. Yes, the attendants of this festival do eat solely vegetarian food in order to prepare for this festival. However, the main event is rather a different affair! The origins of the festival lie in Taoist beliefs and the festival is observed by Chinese communities all over Southeast Asia, but nowhere is it more fervently celebrated than in Phuket, South Thailand, where about 35% of the population is Thai Chinese, ancestors of tin mine workers. The Phuket Vegetarian Festival. Lasting for nine days, the festival, which is also known as the Nine Emperor Gods Festival’, sees participants of the festival take to the streets to perform acts of self-mutilation, impaling their body with all sorts of metal items, from swords to beach umbrellas, as well as partial skinning, bloodletting and other gory operations! The acts are carried out always without anaesthetic, in a trance-like state and the scene is a gruesome one which attracts many travellers and photographers each year. The acts are believed to be a demonstration of devotion to ancestors and Gods. The festival is believed to have started when a troupe of Chinese opera singers visited the town. During this time, Phuket was hit by a fatal epidemic and many people fell ill and died. One of the opera singers realised that they had forgotten to pay homage to the Nine Emperor Gods. They immediately set to this task by sending a member of the troupe to China to invite the Gods to enter the town whilst the rest of the troupe refrained from eating meat, drinking alcohol and engaging in any bodily pleasures. The illness allegedly disappeared, and so the inhabitants of Phuket continue the homage every year with this elaborate festival. Read more about Phuket’s Old Quarter here. Also see – The best hostels in Phuket. 9. Sinulog – Philippines January The Philippines has many festivals throughout the year, it’s hard to pick just one out as the best. However, we had the pleasure of attending the Sinulog Festival in Cebu a few years back and had such a jolly old time that we had to choose this one to highlight! Sinulog Festival, Philippines. The Sinulog-Santo Niño Festival is an annual Catholic festival held on the third Sunday of January in Cebu city which attracts around a million people each year, from all over the Philippines and worldwide. The main event is the grand street parade which lasts around 12 hours! As you push through the crowds you’ll see all sorts of costumes from fairies to grim reapers, as well as a few token Filipino celebrities if you recognise them that is. Huge elaborately decorated floats, drummers, trumpeters and dancers pass through the streets and later on, the parade turns into one big street party, reminiscent of those during Carnival in South America. The festival is held in honour of Santo Niño, or the Child Jesus and you will see his image paraded in frames throughout the day. An image of the Child Jesus is said to be the first gift that Ferdinand Magellan gave to the Queen of Zebu Cebu in 1521, which is now housed in the city’s Basilica. The word Sinulog actually means like water current movement’, which describes the forward-backwards motion of the Sinulog dance which you’ll see performed on the day. Check out our guide to Cebu here. 10. Bon Om Tuk Khmer Water Festival – Cambodia November Held at the end of the rainy season, on the night of the full moon in November, the Cambodia Water Festival takes place over three days, with the major attraction being the large-scale Dragon Boat Races that take place on the Tonle Sap River in Phnom Penh. Celebrations can be found on a smaller scale all over Cambodia, but the largest celebrations are found in the capital of Phnom Penh where parades, fireworks and lots of street food accompany the big day. Cambodia Water Festival Bon Om Tuk The festival not only celebrates the beginning of the dry season in Cambodia, but also the unusual natural occurrence of the reversal of the flow of the Tonle Sap River. From November to May, the river flows into the mighty Mekong just like any other river, however, when the monsoon rains arrive, the build-up of water forces the river to change direction and flow the other way. After a tragic stampede in 2010 in Phnom Penh, where 347 people were killed, the Cambodia Water Festival was cancelled for three years. It returned in 2014, but was again cancelled in 2015 due to low water levels in the Tonle Sap river, however many suspected that it was for other political reasons. In 2016 the carnival and good-humoured atmosphere of the festival was back to normal and we’re hoping that continues for years to come. Read more about Phnom Penh here. 11. Holi – India – March Although not strictly in Southeast Asia, we felt we had to mention the most colourful festival on the planet, which is now celebrated by Indian communities all over the world. The idea of Holi is to welcome the start of spring with as many bright colours as possible! Celebrated all over India, most fervently in the north of India, people of all ages take to the streets to throw coloured powder over each other, known as gulal’. It’s absolute chaos and as a foreign traveller in India, you’ll be particularly targeted! Celebrations also take place in nearby Nepal, and also in Indian communities in Malaysia, particularly in Kuala Lumpur. A little girl at Holi Festival, India. Which Asian festivals have you seen in your lifetime? If you’re currently planning a backpacking trip and wondering which festivals will coincide with your trip, be sure to check out our calendar of festivals and events in Southeast Asia here! Nikki Scott Founder & Editor Nikki is the founding editor of South East Asia Backpacker and The Backpacker Network. In her early twenties, she left her home in the North of England on a solo backpacking adventure and never returned! After six months on the road, she founded a print magazine that became legendary on the Banana Pancake Trail. The rest is history. Find me Facebook Twitter Instagram

among the festivals celebrated by some of asian