StRaNgE FeSTiValS !!

Festivals are mainly celebrated to have fun & they provide entertainment .  Its always fun to throw things on our friends .Whether it be a pillow , snow balls , paper balls , water : anything can do . Below are few festivals where people throw things aiming at each other without hurting them . They enjoy to their fullest .

Starting with our own country , India .

GULAL THROWING FESTIVAL (Holi )

In this festival we throw gulal ( coloured powder ) on each other .  Holi is the time to develop understanding and love for each other. Here, is a platform for you all to renew your friendship and to express heartiest love . On this day bhaang is specially prepared . People have fun by making each other look as different & funny as possible . They sing & dance on  crazy songs like rang barse or balam pichkari . In our society we used to have a common gathering known as " Holi Milan " on this day . We used to have lot of frolic by throwing water through pichkari on each other . 

GRAPE THROWING FESTIVAL (La Raima )

From this picture , we can understand the real fun of celebrating this .The Spanish sure do love their wine. The grape throwing festival dates back to the 1930s and was created to celebrate the end of the harvest. The actual festival itself is called "La Raima" . To put it into perspective, 90 tonnes of grapes are dumped into the town ready to be picked up and launched by the huge crowd of locals and tourists. Grapes Grapes everywhere not a grape to eat hehhehe.....!! 

TOMATO THROWING FESTIVAL ( la Tomatina )

 It brings in crowds of up to 30,000 people to the tiny village of Bunol in Valencia (which only hold 9,000 locals). To compliment all the tomatoes flying around, music, fireworks and even a parade round out the festivities which continue long into the night.This festival is there in the movie "Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara" : a magnificent movie i must say . You must watch it & then you will be able to feel the fun they have in throwing tomatoes on each other. Tomatoes from left , from right , from top actually from every possible direction tomatoes are thrown .

ORANGE THROWING FESTIVAL

Its hard to imagine but yes there is this kind of festival also in which people throw oranges on each other . Prepare for a food fight! The infamous orange throwing festival takes place in the Italian city of Ivera .You'd have to be throwing an orange pretty damn hard on someone.

In modern times, teams compete in the festival, indeed there are often intense rivals at play. If you want to throw oranges at people you have to enlist in one of the local teams. Tourists / spectators are not allowed to throw oranges at anyone and if they are wearing a red hat, are promised not be harmed so there is dress code or something like that .