Editor’s picks
The festivals we’d cross the planet for.
Glastonbury Festival
“No festival captures lightning quite like Glastonbury. Go once and you will spend years trying to get back.”
Oktoberfest
“Bigger and warmer than you expect. The tents feel like the whole world showed up for the same party.”
Rio Carnival
“Overwhelming in the best way. Watch a parade, then lose yourself in a street bloco until sunrise.”
La Tomatina
“Utterly pointless, utterly joyful. One of the purest hours of fun anywhere on the calendar. Wear goggles.”
Dia de Muertos
“Not morbid, luminous. Oaxaca in early November is one of the most moving things you will ever witness.”
Holi
“Chaotic, colourful and impossibly happy. Wear clothes you will happily never wear again.”
Up Helly Aa
“A thousand torches in the Shetland dark and a longship set ablaze. The most atmospheric night in Britain.”
Boryeong Mud Festival
“Gloriously silly and genuinely good for the skin. Come for the mud, stay for the fireworks over the beach.”
