Asian Geographic - 01.01.2018

festival highlights

July August September

mOnGOlia

JUl

11–15

NAADAM

Games of Mongolian

wrestling, horse

racing, and archery

held in midsummer

jaPan

JUl 7

TANABATA

The Star Festival

celebrates the

deities Orihime

and Hikoboshi

sri lanka

AUG

17–27

ESALA PERAHERA

Homage is paid to

the Sacred Tooth

Relic of Lord Buddha

in Kandy

india

SEP 12–

23

GANESH CHATURTHI

A 10-day Hindu festival

that honours Ganesha

by chanting Vedic

texts

indOnesia

JUl (TBC)

BALI KITE FESTIVAL

A religious kite

festival held to ask

the Hindu gods for a

fruitful harvest

armenia

JUL 27

VARDAVAR

A pagan tradition

where people

drench each other

with water

india

AUG

15–27

ONAM FESTIVAL

An annual Hindu

festival with dance

and drama festivities

kyrGyzsTan

SEP(TBC)

WORLD NOMAD

GAMES

Forty nations

compete in eagle

hunting, stick

wrestling, and goat-

carcass polo

bhuTan

SEP

19–21

THIMPHU TSECHU

Days and nights of

prayer and rituals

invoke the gods

sOuTh kOrea

JUL

20–29

BORYEONG MUD

FESTIVAL

A rowdy mud-

flinging festival with

mud taken from the

Boryeong mud flats

kyrGyzsTan

JUL (TBC)

BIRDS OF PREY

FESTIVAL

Falconers from

around Issyk-Köl

compete with their

trained eagles,

hawks and falcons

sOuTh kOrea

SEP

23–25

CHUSEOK

A major harvest

festival held around

the autumn equinox

jOrdan

JUL/AUG (TBC)

JERASH FESTIVAL OF

CULTURE AND ARTS

Held in an ancient Roman ruin,

it features several well-known

Jordanian, Arab and foreign

artists

india

SEP 2

KRISHNA

JANMASHTAMI

An annual Hindu

festival that celebrates

the birth of Krishna

*Dates are subject to change

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