Category: Festival
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Happy Halloween: How to Visit Yucatán’s Incredible Bat Tornado (Volcano).
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It’s Halloween, Day of the Dead, and (tomorrow) Día de los Muertos. All over Mexico (and even many other parts of the world), Catrinas (those delightful white skull faces, often elaborately colored and bejeweled) appear, the candy baskets are filled, costumes are worn. In so many ways Halloween is my…
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Nyepi: Bali’s “Silent Day”
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It almost sounds like a stand-up comedian’s joke, but it isn’t. Balinese are very serious about doing nothing during the Nyepi holiday, or “Silent Day.” They take it so seriously that people have been known to be arrested — even deported — for walking outside or camping during this sacred…
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Tantalizing Tanabe: Japan’s Hidden Delight
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Getting a media stay at a hotel overnight or a weekend is one thing, but what about a whole week to explore a region so many visitors to Japan never get to see? Priceless. I couldn’t have been luckier to work with the Tanabe tourism board to uncover its secrets…