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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate><image><title>exploriada.com</title><link>http://www.exploriada.com</link><url>http://www.exploriada.com/imgs/logo.jpg</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Festival of the Tooth (Dalada Maligawa, Kandy, Sri Lanka, 2011-07-31)]]></title><guid>http://www.exploriada.com/festival/asia/sri-lanka/festival-of-the-tooth</guid><link>http://www.exploriada.com/festival/asia/sri-lanka/festival-of-the-tooth</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:52:06 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Kandy is a beautiful city in Sri Lanka. On a small hill is a great temple which was especially built to house a relic of the Buddha - his tooth. The tooth can never be seen, as it is kept deep inside may caskets. But once a year in August, on the night of the full moon, there is a special procession for it. But other festivities occur on ten days leading to that final ...]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hungry Ghost Festival (Beijing, China, 2011-08-14)]]></title><guid>http://www.exploriada.com/festival/asia/china/hungry-ghost-festival</guid><link>http://www.exploriada.com/festival/asia/china/hungry-ghost-festival</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:19:55 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Ghost Festival is said to be the time when ghosts roam the world every year. In some areas of China, visitors can see small roadside fires, where believers burn paper money and other offerings to appease the restless spirits, who have temporarily been released from Hell.
The Ghost Festival is also called Half July (Lunar). It is a popular occasion celebrated throughout China on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month.
The Ghost Festival is ...]]></description><imgthumb>http://www.exploriada.com/imgs/fests/fi4a018161a9c1f.jpg</imgthumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vegetarian Festival (Phuket, Thailand, 2011-09-27)]]></title><guid>http://www.exploriada.com/festival/asia/thailand/vegetarian-festival</guid><link>http://www.exploriada.com/festival/asia/thailand/vegetarian-festival</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:19:55 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Phuket Vegetarian Festival is an annual event held during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar. It is believed that the vegetarian festival and its accompanying sacred rituals bestow good fortune upon those who religiously observe this rite. During this time, local residents of Chinese ancestry strictly observe a 10-day vegetarian or vegan diet for the purposes of spiritual cleansing and merit-making. Sacred rituals are performed at various Chinese shrines and temples and ...]]></description><imgthumb>http://www.exploriada.com/imgs/fests/fi4a1d3199a5a54.jpg</imgthumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dasain (Kathmandu, Nepal, 2011-09-28)]]></title><guid>http://www.exploriada.com/festival/asia/nepal/dasain</guid><link>http://www.exploriada.com/festival/asia/nepal/dasain</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:19:55 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[During the month of Kartik (late September and early October), the Nepalese people indulge in the biggest festival of the year, Dashain. Dashain is the longest and the most auspicious festival in the Nepalese annual calendar, celebrated by Nepalese of all caste and creed throughout the country. The fifteen days of celebration occurs during the bright lunar fortnight ending on the day of the full moon. Thorough out the kingdom of Nepal the goddess Durga ...]]></description><imgthumb>http://www.exploriada.com/imgs/fests/fi4a4e03d692152.jpg</imgthumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Masskara Festival (Bacolod, Philippines, 2011-10-01)]]></title><guid>http://www.exploriada.com/festival/asia/philippines/masskara-festival</guid><link>http://www.exploriada.com/festival/asia/philippines/masskara-festival</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:19:55 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Masskara Festival takes place here Oct. 1-20 in Bacolod City. Local and foreign visitors get a chance to enjoy 20 days of merry making, beer drinking, dining and street dancing. On the weekend nearest to 19 October, the biggest party in Bacalod is scheduled to take place. Bacalod is the capital city of the country's sugar-producing province of Bocalenos.
The term Masskara is created from two words: mass, meaning crowd, and the Spanish word cara, for ...]]></description><imgthumb>http://www.exploriada.com/imgs/fests/fi4a1fc3d9a263e.jpg</imgthumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Day of the Rooster (Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan, 2011-11-12)]]></title><guid>http://www.exploriada.com/festival/asia/japan/day-of-the-rooster</guid><link>http://www.exploriada.com/festival/asia/japan/day-of-the-rooster</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:19:55 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Tori no Ichi Fair (open-air market) is a famous annual event in November on the day of the Tori (Rooster) in Chinese calendar. The origin of Tori no Ichi Fair was a fair of Hanamatamura located in a suburb of Edo (today it is Otori Shrine located in Adachi-ku, Tokyo). Its original form was a harvest festival by peasants who thank to Hanamata Washidaimyojin.
Tori no Ichi is held at Temple of Tori (Juzaisan Chokoku-ji) in ...]]></description><imgthumb>http://www.exploriada.com/imgs/fests/fi4a2a492a25091.jpg</imgthumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whirling Dervishes Festival (Konya, Turkey, 2011-12-10)]]></title><guid>http://www.exploriada.com/festival/asia/turkey/whirling-dervishes-festival</guid><link>http://www.exploriada.com/festival/asia/turkey/whirling-dervishes-festival</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:19:55 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Commemorative Ceremony for Mevlana, the great Sufic saint (1207-1273), is one of the world\'s greatest spectacles. More than a million people descend on Konya, the ancient Seljuk capital, for the festival of the Whirling Dervishes.
At the Mausoleum of Mevlana in Konya, mystical ceremonial dances are performed in honour of the great teacher and thinker. Mevlana (which in Arabic means "Our Lord") taught the preeminence of complete tolerance, positive thinking and awareness of God through ...]]></description><imgthumb>http://www.exploriada.com/imgs/fests/fi4a8ea3662a29d.jpg</imgthumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harvest Festival (Tamil Nadu, India, 2012-01-13)]]></title><guid>http://www.exploriada.com/festival/asia/india/harvest-festival-pongal</guid><link>http://www.exploriada.com/festival/asia/india/harvest-festival-pongal</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:00:22 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Pongal is regarded as a harvest festival of South India. It is one of the most important and popular Hindu festivals. The four-day long harvest festival of Tamil Nadu, Pongal is all about thanksgiving to nature and takes its name from the Tamil word meaning \"to boil\" and is held in the month of Thai (January-February) it is celebrated from January 13 to 16 every year. The festival marks a period of plenty, peace and ...]]></description><imgthumb>http://www.exploriada.com/imgs/fests/fi4ed37027af61d.jpg</imgthumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lantern Festival (Beijing, China, 2012-01-17)]]></title><guid>http://www.exploriada.com/festival/asia/china/lantern-festival</guid><link>http://www.exploriada.com/festival/asia/china/lantern-festival</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:19:55 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The 15th day of the 1st lunar month is the Chinese Lantern Festival because the first lunar month is called yuan-month and in the ancient times people called night Xiao. The 15th day is the first night to see a full moon. So the day is also called Yuan Xiao Festival in China.According to the Chinese tradition, at the very beginning of a new year, when there is a bright full moon hanging in the ...]]></description><imgthumb>http://www.exploriada.com/imgs/fests/fi4a8a96e72dc73.jpg</imgthumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pasola (Sumba, Indonesia, 2012-02-10)]]></title><guid>http://www.exploriada.com/festival/asia/indonesia/pasola</guid><link>http://www.exploriada.com/festival/asia/indonesia/pasola</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:19:55 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A riotous tournament between two teams of spear-wielding, ikat-clad horsemen, the Pasola has to be one of Asia&quot;s most extravagant, and bloodiest, harvest festivals. Taking the form of a ritual battle, it represents not so much a quarrel between opposing forces as a need for human blood to be split to keep the spirits happy and bring a good harvest. Despite the blunt spears used by combatants, and the efforts of Indonesian authorities to supervise ...]]></description><imgthumb>http://www.exploriada.com/imgs/fests/fi49ec67411e6a8.jpg</imgthumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Festival of Colours (Barsana, India, 2012-03-08)]]></title><guid>http://www.exploriada.com/festival/asia/india/festival-of-colours-holi</guid><link>http://www.exploriada.com/festival/asia/india/festival-of-colours-holi</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:38:12 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Holi is the first major Hindu Festival of the year.

HOLI HAI... Come holi and the streets will reverberate with the chants of Holi hai...

Colours will fill the atmosphere as people throw abeer and gulal in the air showing great joy and mirth in the arrival of this Spring Festival.
Holi marks the end of the winter gloom and rejoices in the bloom of the spring time. It is the best time and season to celebrate; Holi ...]]></description><imgthumb>http://www.exploriada.com/imgs/fests/fi4ed36d8297126.jpg</imgthumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dragon Boat Festival (Beijing, China, 2012-05-28)]]></title><guid>http://www.exploriada.com/festival/asia/china/dragon-boat-festival</guid><link>http://www.exploriada.com/festival/asia/china/dragon-boat-festival</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:19:55 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a significant holiday celebrated in China, and the one with the longest history.
Dragon Boat races are the most exciting part of the festival, drawing crowds of spectators. They commemorate Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet who drowned on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in 277 B.C. Chinese citizens now throw bamboo leaves filled with cooked rice into the water. Therefore the fish could eat the rice rather ...]]></description><imgthumb>http://www.exploriada.com/imgs/fests/fi4a8a9960c3533.jpg</imgthumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nadaam Festival (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 2012-07-11)]]></title><guid>http://www.exploriada.com/festival/asia/mongolia/nadaam-festival</guid><link>http://www.exploriada.com/festival/asia/mongolia/nadaam-festival</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:32:11 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Nadaam festival, or eriyn gurvan nadaam, is the biggest festival of the year for Mongolians. Usually occuring in July, it runs for three days in all parts of the country and highlights the greatest athletes in horse racing, archery, and wrestling: Mongolia's most popular sports. Women participate in all but the wrestling category. The word Nadaam means game or competition in Mongolian. Competitions take place days on the first two and merry-making is reserved ...]]></description><imgthumb>http://www.exploriada.com/imgs/fests/fi4ae07e3ddf686.jpg</imgthumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Festival of Lights (Jaipur, India, 2012-11-13)]]></title><guid>http://www.exploriada.com/festival/asia/india/festival-of-lights-diwali</guid><link>http://www.exploriada.com/festival/asia/india/festival-of-lights-diwali</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:39:20 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Diwali is regarded as one of the most important festival of the Hindu calendar. It is celebrated across the nation with great pomp and excitement. The festival is mainly associated with lights as it is called the festival of light. On the day of the festival diyas (small clay lamps) are lit in everybody\\\'s home irrespective of their social status. The name Diwali signifies \\\'rows of lighted lamps\\\'. Diwali is a five-day festival, beginning on ...]]></description><imgthumb>http://www.exploriada.com/imgs/fests/fi4ed3711867fe3.jpg</imgthumb></item></channel></rss>
