When you're traveling, there's nothing like coming across a great festival. Walking the streets amongst one of the world's greatest parties is a priceless part of seeing the world. In this third installment of Globe Trekker's Great Festivals well take a look back at some of the best ones weve comes across, and count down the worlds finest. Many of the world's great festivals coincide with the changing of the season. Ancient cultures set their clocks to the calendar's quarters. Chinese New Year falls on the first day of the lunar new year and Justine Shapiro is in Taiwan to catch the highlights of this 15-day celebration. Zay Harding is in New Zealand where many of the major festivals fall on the first day of spring. In a place where sheep outnumber people, its only appropriate that the Sheep Shearing Contest held as part of the festivities is considered the worlds most prestigious. The Strange Foods festival in the New Zealand countryside celebrates the eccentric cuisine of the west coast. The strange is celebrated throughout the world. In Finland the Wife-Carrying Competition is a calendar highlight, and Ian Wright discovers the annual Calcio Stone match in Florence. They say it's a football match, but seems more an opportunity to pummel your neighbor. England is no stranger to the, well, to the strange, and the annual Shin-Kicking Competition is matched only by the Birdman Contest, held every year at the end of a pier. In Northern Russia they celebrate the end of ...
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