The World's Great Festivals

Why travel by date, when you can travel by celebration? A trip with a heartbeat — a carnival street at midnight, a procession that stops a city, a festival of light that turns a town into a lantern — is a trip you remember in your body, not just in your photos. The tragedy is arriving a week late, or booking when the rooms are gone, because no one told you the date mattered.

This 265-page handbook plans a year around carnivals, cultural festivals, music and faith gatherings — month by month, festival by festival. You will find a twelve-month calendar with sixty festivals and their booking windows, twelve anchor festival dossiers at working length, and answers to twenty-five festival questions.

Inside are festivals of Africa and the diaspora, festivals of the Americas and the Pacific, great processions and parades, festivals of light and fire, small and strange festivals, four grand tours of the calendar, night festivals and dawn rites, and the craft, sounds and ethics of celebrating well.

This is for celebration travellers, culture lovers, music fans and anyone who wants a trip with a heartbeat. It is not for travellers who want a quiet, empty destination — this book will put you in the crowd, on purpose, and teach you how to celebrate in it.

A short guide names a festival. A complete handbook helps you get there in time, book wisely and celebrate well.

Get the complete handbook today for only $10.99 — and travel the year by celebration.

By Yovwe Samuels