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Top 10 Most Dangerous Festivals in the World
In today’s ultra-sanitized, risk-assessed, as well as purified world it’s good to know that you can still rely on some nations to allow you, if you so desire, the opportunity to cause yourself serious danger, harm, and sometimes even death as well. The leaders in this high energy, adrenaline fuel death rides are the Spanish and the Japanese. These two countries offer you the best of the most dangerous mayhem.
So if you are thinking of spicing up your holiday destination this year, what are the most dangerous festivals you can try? Here is just ten to consider.
10. La Tomatino
La Tomatina is a food fight festival held on the last Wednesday of August each year in the town of Bunol near to Valencia in Spain. Thousands upon thousands of people make their way from all corners of the world to fight in this ‘World’s Biggest Food Fight’ where more than one hundred metric tons of over-ripe tomatoes are thrown in the streets.
The week-long festival features music, parades, dancing, and fireworks. On the night before the tomato fight, participants of the festival compete in a paella cooking contest.
Prior to 2013 anywhere from 40,000 to 50,000 (reported to be 50,000 in 2012) people crammed into this huge tomato fight, greatly expanding Bunol’s normal 9,000 person population. Since the 2013 event official ticketing was put into place limiting the number of participants to just 20,000 lucky people.
9. Cooper’s Hill Cheese Rolling Contest Gloucester, England
Yes, it’s a random event, but in Britain it’s taken very seriously. Every spring in Gloucester, thousands of people gather to watch dozens of men and women chase a seven- to eight-pound Double Gloucester cheese 200 yards down an almost-vertical slope. Records indicate that the event has been held annually for the last two centuries, while many others believe the race’s roots go even deeper.
The goal of the contest is to see who can get to the cheese first, risking their limbs doing so. You’d think that, considering the risks involved (18 racers suffered injuries, including broken bones and head trauma, in a melee in 1997), the first-place prize would be great, but all the winner gets is, oddly enough, the very cheese he or she was chasing.
8. Kirkpinar Wrestling Festival Turkey
Kirkpinar Oil Wresting is the Turkish oil wrestling festival. It is considered to be one of the oldest wrestling festivals in the world. Turks who are the toughest and strongest wrestlers in the worldcelebrates this festival annually since 1346. The wrestling usually takes place in an open field with 20 pairs at a time. Before each session they pour olive oil all over their bodies. It usually ends with either pinning the other to the ground or lifting his opponent above his shoulders. Wrestling features ear-pulling, head-slapping and testicle-grabbing. It won the Guinness World Record of the longest running sports competition.
7. Mountain Jam Catskill, NY
This next festival, Mountain Jam, aims to attract fans young and old with a diverse range of performers. Located in the Catskill area of New York, it offers festival goers a shady and mountainous retreat to enjoy their favorite tunes. Notable artists include The Allman Brothers Band, who will beretiring their collective sound at the end of the summer, Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead, Damien Marley, Umphrey’s McGee, the Avett Brothers, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Warren Hayes and his band Gov’t Mule, along with producer Pretty Lights, coming off of his first Grammy nomination this past summer.
Many more groups fill out the rest of the line up at Mountain Jam, including the interesting choice of experimental folk band Blitzen Trapper, whose song “Furr” caught the number 4 spot on Rolling Stone’s “Top Singles of ’08″ list. With this fascinating line up Mountain Jam should be an extremely unique and exciting festival, and could be one of your last chances to see rock and roll great Gregg Allman in concert.
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