Dance like mad, splash colors or play with fire, festivals are great way to know about any country’s culture, tradition and custom. The thrill and excitement associated with festival’s can transform any person into free minded spirit. Quite different from routine travels, festival travel is a life changing experience which let you to come out of your cocoons and helps you to discover a new person in you.

They are always meant to rejoice your souls, creativity and look beyond your prejudice.

Snow & Ice Festival- Harbin, China

If you can tolerate the bone chilling cold, then you should definitely head to the Harbin Snow & Ice festival.

Feast your eyes with exquisite ice and snow moulded into the fine masterpieces decorated with lights and lasers, carving towering over 20 feet in height.

Contestants all across the world come here to exhibit the craft of making beautiful sculpture out of ice and snow.

Organized every year from 5 January to 5 February, it has become the china’s one of the most sought out festival.

Holi- Festival of colors, India

Whether you’re a kid, teenager or a grown up, I can bet that you will definitely gonna love this festive; such is the charm of Holi.

Splash color, beat drums, shake a leg with friends, get drenched and sing songs, celebrating Holi is pure fun.

Mostly celebrated in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and other Hindu regions, it usually falls in the month of March and April.

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Cascamorras- Baza, Spain

Get dirty! Take off your expensive clothes and cover yourself in grease... To accompany hundreds of Spaniards to reenact the stealing of a famous statue of the “Virgen de la Piedad,” which took place over 500 years ago.

Lasting for three days, Cascamorras takes place in the towns of Guadix and Baza in the province of Granada, Spain, annually on September 6.

Carnival- Venice, Italy

Forget your identity for a day and hide yourself behind the elaborated masks.

Indeed, one of its kinds, this Carnival has been a Venice tradition since the 13th century and people in different disguises from all over the world gather every year in Venice to ensure their participation in the masked celebration.

Up Helly Aa Fire Festival- Lerwick, Scotland

Fire! Fire! Fire! Don’t be panic! We are talking about the Up Helly Aa fire festival held in Shetland, Scotland. Celebrated annually in the middle of winter to mark the end of the Yule season, it is Europe’s largest fire festival.

Every year thousand of guizers take a torchlight procession throughout the town which culminated with the burning of a full-scale Viking ship.

La Tomatina- Buñol, Spain

Fight with tomatoes, lot’s of overripe tomatoes. What? Sound crazy, But La Tomatina is all about tomatoes and every year thousands of tourists landed in Spain especially to attend this crazy festival.

Featured in many films, this festival is pure fun to attend. It is one of the largest food fight festival held on the last Wednesday of August each year in the town of Bunol near to Valencia in Spain.

Carnival- Rio deJaneiro, Brazil

Colorful costumes, Giant parades and Samba Music, made Rio De Janerio Carnival, the most famous Carnival festival of the Brazil held before lent every year. Once you landed in the Carnival Capital of the world, it’s difficult for you to run away from its charm.

Its nonstop party here and every day 2 million people hit the streets, making it the biggest Carnival.

Pamplona Bull Running, Spain

How it feels when a bull gone mad is chasing you? Might be it make you scared and excited, but for the people of Spain it is a time honored tradition enough to challenge them and raise their adrenaline level.

Held every year from July 6th to 14th, this festival is for brave hearted people only.

Lantern Festival- Pingxi, Taiwan

Imagine a sky with thousand of floating ablaze Lanterns that light up the sky. Celebrated annual as a mark of the beginning of the Chinese New year in Pingxi, Taiwan it is one of the world’s largest lantern festival.

It’s amazing to see the sky in ablaze of the luminous glory of thousand Lanterns.

Oktoberfest- Munich, Germany

Oktoberfest is all about beer, beer and beer.

Held annually in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It is the world’s largest beer festival that runs for 16 days from late September to the first weekend in October.

Beautiful waitresses serving huge glasses of beer for free would definitely a perk.

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You are left with no choice but to eat out while travelling.

Sticking to a diet turns out to be a hard nut to crack, given all the temptations of tasting new food in the city you have just landed in.

I mean, who would want to miss out on those epicurean delicacies that await you at every fast food joint you come across? But… laying stress on ‘but’, you need to know that to eat healthy while travelling should be one of your foremost concerns as you need to stay fit throughout the trip. You can’t afford to fall sick or weak while on a vacation and eventually ruin a long planned get-away, can you?

While it is easy to give up on your diet plan while travelling, it is almost as easy to keep healthy all through the trip, provided you swear by certain tips and tricks to eating healthy that we would like to enlist here.

Whether its business or leisure, you can be sure of maintaining a healthy regime following these eating mantras to the letter. Here you go- 

Let us start with eating on the airplane; this is from where your eating habits start to falter.

The rather expensive typically unhealthy meals offered on the plane are something best avoided. How? All you need to do is pack your own meal from home. Again, most airlines and stringent flight regulations don’t allow you to carry certain types of food. In that case you can easily pack a vegetable salad at one of the several airport eateries.

You have the privilege of bringing protein-dense food such as nuts, protein bars and firm fruits like apples, which won’t leak or get smashed in your bag. Sounds good? This way you will not only eat healthy while travelling but also save yourself of an outrageous food bill on the flight.

Hunger strikes at odd times, agreed!

The fast food joint at the corner of the street will no doubt provide you a quick bite. But all that greasy stuff, are they really worth it? These food, beyond doubt, taste good but are always high on fats and calorie; you will soon end up with flab’s.

And moreover, you travelled all the way to that country to experience the local culture there. Why let these food rob you off of what you have been there for? So, what we suggest is to eat often but in lesser quantities. Eating many times a day in meagre amounts will keep signalling your brain that you have eaten plentiful.

Large and heavy meals will not only force your body to store a huge amount of fat, but will also make you feel heavy and sleepy throughout the day. Also, going for local food that constitutes a large amount of fruits and vegetables will do the trick. It’s a much, much better option than eating carb while on the go.

Another great way to eat healthy on vacations is -

to stock your hotel room with water bottles, granola or other protein bars, fibber cookies and a lot of fresh fruit. This will save you off the trouble of ransacking the mini-bar which is often stuffed with high-calorie food and beverages, and costs you an outrageous amount, as well.

Moreover, this is adequately indispensable to curb your insatiable hunger during business meetings or tourist activities.

Next on the list of tricks to eating healthy on vacations is controlling your fluid intake.

Choosing water over other beverages while on transit is the best thing to go for. Though milk and fresh juices are encouraged, we strongly suggest avoiding aerated drinks and alcoholic beverages.

The latter two will not just leave you dehydrated but will even increase the risks of travel related health conditions, say for instance, jet-lags. Dinging plenty of fresh water will keep you fresh and active all throughout the trip.

Last but not the least; try not to miss your breakfast. Recent studies have proven that those who avoid breakfast tend to gain weight more as compared to those who do.

Breakfast helps mold your system and prepares you for a full day of activities. Thus we can conclude that yet another vital mantra for eating healthy on vacations is to grab your breakfast at the hotel which is often provided complimentary.

Just make sure you choose a high protein-fibber meal that you keep you filled till lunch. Healthy breakfasts include whole grain toasts with peanut butter, eggs, mueslis, milk and juices, just to name a few.

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My attention suddenly reflected from an excellent desktop image. Abruptly, a vivid butterfly with open wings offered me a few fantasies with the mountain slants of Ladakh up to the white sands of Thailand. Here, I chose to really encounter the vibe of outside air, separated from the look of any PC screen saver.

Really, work anxiety is a typical issue that devoured us step by step, in a strategic manner. We basically miss the delightful piece of our life which everyone really deserves. Here the straightforward inquiry emerges, "By what means would we be able to restore ourselves from the long time working hours while sitting in a same stance?"

Gradually, our health slips down from own hands and it is the actual time to kick back. If you’ve still any doubt then have a look at following reasons, before to put your feet out of the door in this big world.

Travelling- a way to recollect thoughts

It's basic to all when we are abruptly bothered with the commotion of music, smell of smoke or just lose our attention on work. Here no medication is helpful to return backs our imagination area or most loved tastes.

The best option is put the step outside of comfort zone and attempt to redesign your considerations in a great way. A new place is incredible to get a casual and smooth feeling.

Activate your brain with travelling

Always, there is no need of crossword like puzzles for the strength of brain. A new environment works as a fresh frame of mind. Tasting new food and route of unfamiliar places are the pathways to boost up the building effect of brain.

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Forget your annoying disorders with travelling

Thanks to God, for this gorgeous land which works as a perfect medicine for our routine partners like headaches, weakness and migraines.

In the quality time of vacations, we’re totally apart from the term “deadline” regarding our office tasks and invest a decent energy for our inward bliss. It’s not necessary to pick out any foreign destination. One can simply select ancestral hometown for the inner peace.

Vacations, a necessity for Homemakers

In simple words, homemakers are the unpaid employees for a lifetime. Even, research also reveals that they have higher levels of stress than others.

So, their vacation need is truly on higher priority. Holidays are simply a break to re-energize body from the routine schedule.

A break for your happy and loud heartbeat

With the busy schedule, no one has the time to properly take care about the health of his internal organs. Vacations are a process to cut down the health risks, especially heart related disorders.

Improve your decision making sense

Drive back home over the packed streets in every night just gives the possibility of self-centered choices in a person.

While seeking the worldwide miracles is a superior and different option for getting the change for both individual and in addition professional life. This mystical arrangement gives us a free state of musings for a superior change in well-being and mental peace.

Overcome your stress

Ever imagine the unique concept of office work within comfortable night dress or holding your girlfriend’s bag instead of yours. It is simply a vacation theme where your mind ready to touches sky limits. Travelling is an outstanding way to drop down your stress level, miraculously.

Travelling as a good exercise

Frankly, we all in a hurry and don’t have time for physical workout. The lazy feeling on every morning is always with us and we easily skip out the jogging and related exercises from our schedule.

Travelling is a way to perform our hidden wishes. For example, walking tour is a perfect way to get an immense dedication and strength of the body.

Great positivity and freshness in air while travelling

Leisure is a perfect way to gain the health benefits without any limit. A person can easily perform his childish activities in this great time. With lots of experience, a traveler achieves the ability to collect positive thoughts along the energetic sunlight, pristine coastlines and clean & purified air.

Gain the real value of home in a new way

A single thought of being far away from home, sounds an unpleasant sense. But, for getting this value in a real way there is need of some outing. This refreshing outdoor feeling is a formula to realize the importance of home.

It is guaranteed that you’ll surely cherish on little things and get the best feeling in your sweet home. Here, travel is not about any overpriced project or some competitive task with neighbors.

Simply, it is a trip to land which works as a lifetime medicine in a form of a trek to mountains, scuba diving session or travel to an unseen place.

                                                         

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