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Full Moon Party in Thailand (Thailand)

It's early afternoon on Rin beach in Ko Phangan and we see a full moon a rising. Makeshift cafés and bars are heaving, and beach bums and backpackers are catching last of the sun's rays, ready for the first of the moon's. Full Moon parties take place all over Thailand's islands but the most popular are on Ko Phangan.

As the sun goes down, DJs start up the techno and trance music, bonfires are lit and the experience is accentuated by the beautiful setting. By midnight several thousands ravers are on the beach, and the scene has taken on the appearance of Mardi Gras meets Mad Max via Baywatch. By dawn things calm down, but we stay to watch the sun come over the water - the ultimate Thai beach experience.

Carneval in Brazil February 5,6,7,8th of 2005

Carnival is Rio's main event. It happens at the peak of summer, when Cariocas are at their best. Festivities attract thousands of people from all corners of the world. Carnaval , as spelled in Portuguese , is a 4-day celebration. It starts on Saturday, and ends on Fat Tuesday, or Mardi-Gras. Dates change every year . Carnival Sunday is seven weeks before Easter Sunday. The origins of Carnival are unclear, but most agree that it started as a pagan celebration in ancient Rome or Greece. Carnival balls were imported to Rio from Italy in the late nineteenth century, and had their golden era in the 1930 through 50's, with legendary balls at the Copacabana Palace and the Municipal Theater . The Samba Parade began in the 30's - first timidly at Praça XI, and later on Av. Presidente Vargas. It found a permanent home in 1984 at the Sambodrome , a structure in the downtown area . Today Samba Parade is broadcast to dozens of countries, and all Brazilian states. Many people think of it as the greatest show on earth.   There's much more to Carnival than the Samba Parade, though. Street Carnival is loads of fun, free, and it happens all over the city. You are more than welcome to watch and to participate. Banda de Ipanema is one of the most traditional ones. It was founded in 1964, and today it's listed as part of the city cultural heritage, attracting as many as fifteen thousand people!

Mardi Gras 2005 Tuesday, February 8th, New Orleans - U.S.A

The Big Easy is a sexy, steamy melting pot at the best of times, but Mardi Gras, first celebrated here at masked balls by French inhabitants as far back as 1718, is still the USA's premier street party.

Held every 'Fat Tuesday' and on the days leading up to it, it involves scores of private social clubs known as Krewe's parading themed floats and costumes through the barroom-lined streets and suburbs of New Orleans - most notably down Bourbon St in the French Quarter.

Traditions include opulent private Balls, the crowning of Kings and Queens, and chaotic Throws - the tossing of trinkets such as medallions, pearl beads and stuffed animals to the crowds thronging the parade routes. Krewes started as private social clubs and some used to be segregationist, but there's no discrimination these days: check out the Krewe of Bacchus, the Mardi Gras Indians and the Krewe of Zulu, for the best and wildest of all. True, Mardi Gras is crowded and commercial and the balconies along Bourbon St have long since booked up by corporations and TV companies, but a night partying with a local Krewe in the back-street bars of the city is a once-in-a-lifetime thrill.

Queen birthsday in Holland- April 30th every year.

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Let your hair down, go on. Join the Dutch on their craziest day of the year Koninginnedag or Queen's Day. This annual celebration on April 30 commemorates the Queen Mothers' birthday. This old royal was a game old thing and Amsterdam parties with her. Everyone wears orange - the colour of the royal house, and it is impossible to be in a bad mood dressed as a satsuma.

Trading laws are lifted for the day so anyone can sell whatever they want on the street, and the whole place becomes the most outrageous flea-market. Music pumps out of sound systems and stages spring up through the city playing jazz, classical music and the latest dance tunes. The canals heave with party boats as up to two million people invade Amsterdam. Join them.

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The Bull Run - 7th and 14th of July, begins at 8.00 a.m Pamplona Spain

The bull run is the most well known act of the Sanfermines and the reason why so many strangers make their way to Pamplona on the 6th of July. Basically, it consists of running along certain stretches of the streets which have been previously walled off, and the aim of which is to take the bulls from the Santo Domingo corrals to the Bull Ring where, later that afternoon, they will be fought. A total of six bulls are "run" as well as two herds of tame bulls and the route, which runs through different streets of the old city centre, measures 825 metres.

This dangerous race, which is run every morning between the 7th and 14th of July, begins at 8.00 a.m., although the runners will have entered the run at 7.30. A few minutes before the race is due to begin the youths who will make the run entrust themselves to San Fermín and sing three times before a niche of the Saint decorated with the scarves of the peñas, or social groups, which is located on the Cuesta de Santo Domingo. The song goes like this: "We ask San Fermín, as our Patron, to guide us through the Bull Run and give us his blessing."

At eight o'clock exactly the first rocket is launched announcing the opening of the gates of the small corrals' of Santo Domingo, while the firing of the second indicates that all the bulls have left. From then on the animals run along the following course: they go up the Santo Domingo rise and cross the Town Hall Square in order to run in line down the Calle Mercaderes. A closed curve leads into the Calle Estafeta, the longest part of the route which is followed by a small part of the Calle Duque de Ahumada, also known as the Telefónica stretch, which gives access to the dead end street which leads to the Bull Ring. Once all the bulls have entered the taurine enclosure a third rocket goes up while the fourth indicates that the beasts have gone into the bullpens and the Bull Run is over.

The run lasts for three minutes on average, which are prolonged if any of the bulls should get separated from its brothers. Although all the stretches are dangerous, the curve of the Calle Mercaderes and the stretch between the Calle Estafeta and the Bull Ring are those which hold the most risk.

At present overcrowding is one of the main problems of the Bull Run and increases the danger of the run in which the youths should not try to hold out for more than 50 metres before the bulls.