Ideas by Month - February
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Venice, Italy: Carnevale Festival
The most popular festival in Venice, Carnevale is characterised with lavish parades, luxuriant masquerade balls and spontaneous parties in the streets. Although celebrated throughout Italy, Venice is the best place to see the festival. Costumes and masks abound, both ornate and simple, providing anonymity for the wearer - with your mask on, your sins are pardoned!
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Buenos Aires, Argentina: Tango Festival - 23 February to 2 March 2008
The annual Buenos Aires Tango Festival is the perfect place to see this undeniably intense, moody and sexy dance at its best. The world's best tango dancers gather in a program of tango concerts, dancing displays, classes, exhibitions and a film festival. The festival offers endless possibilities to watch, listen, learn and take part in a range of events related to this wonderful art form, home grown in Buenos Aires.
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Marlborough, New Zealand: Wine Marlborough Festival
New Zealand's premier wine and food event is held in the famous wine district of Marlborough, at the top end of the stunning South Island. The festival showcases more than 200 wines from 40 wineries, as well as the culinary delights of renowned NZ chefs. Visitors can meet with leading winemakers and learn trade secrets, all the while being entertained by some of NZ's leading musical performers.
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Sapporo, Japan: Sapporo Snow Festival
You will be amazed by the elaborate snow and ice statues that fill Odori, Sapporo's mile-long central park, each year. One of the world's biggest winter spectacles, the festival displays more than 300 giant ice-carved figures of up to 10 metres in height, especially spectacular by night when the statues are illuminated. If you have small children, check out the more spacious display at Makomanai in the south of the city. Arrive in Sapporo a week before the event if you are interested in seeing first-hand the ice being carved into life.
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Vietnam: Tet Festival - 6 to 8 February 2008
The biggest event of the year, the annual Tet Festival (short for Tet Nguyen Dan, meaning 'the first day') celebrates the Chinese New Year. A wonderful insight into Vietnamese culture and lifestyle, the festival is traditionally a time for friends, families and loved ones to come together, enjoying lavish meals followed by the celebrations of public parades, where firecrackers are set off to scare away evil forces from the coming year.
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