We all enjoy taking time off from the everyday grind of life to relax, either as a family group, or as a community. You could make your own Blue Moon Opportunity (life changing opportunity) and take a Whacky World Trip to attend 20 Whacky Festivals. It could take up to 20 months to complete, but what a way to go!

• At Coopers’s Hill in Gloucester England contestants chase, roll, tumble and somersault after a wheel of cheese down a ridiculously steep hill. The result: bruises, sprains and broken bones. No one ever catches the cheese, but whoever gets down the hill first is allowed to keep the giant wheel of cheese.
• The cheese-chasing feat is however, less daunting than horses and riders racing down a 69 meter slope with a 62 degree angle,  known as Suicide Hill in Washington.
• Every August thousands of Spaniards take part in the La Tomatina festival in Bunol. Truckloads of tomatoes are hauled so the people can throw tomatoes at each other for the whole day. The only rule is that the tomato must be squashed in the hand first, before being thrown. Even grandmothers have been known to participate.
• Alice Springs in the dry heart of Australia, hosts the Todd Regatta in a riverbed that has no water. The boats are bottomless and have no paddles. They are constructed of beer cans, which must first be emptied by the boat builders. The teams run the riverbed with their feet sticking out the bottom of the boats. In 1993 the race had to be canceled due to the threat of a once in a blue moon rain storm.
• There is the week long beer drinking festival in Munich.
• You could run with the bulls in Pamplona,
• Or race bulls in Madura. Either one is a bone crunching festival.
• If you like it hot you can head to Finland for the Sauna Bathing Championships. Every 30 seconds the heat is turned up. The last person left in the sauna is the winner. You must of course keep your naked butt firmly on the wooden seat throughout the contest and remain seated upright.
• In both Finland and the Uk there are mobile phone throwing championships.
• While in Wisconsin State, USA in September they have a champion dry cow pad (manure) throwing contest.
• In Greater Manchester Uk you can throw a black pudding.
• And we all know about the Scots legendary ability to throw large items. I think someone even mentioned a dwarf throwing contest, but maybe that is only a rumour.
• In the Rocky Mountains there is an annual ball where daughters pledge their purity to their dads. Some do not even permit a kiss before their wedding day and many never dance with anyone other than their father or brothers. Tough luck on the guys of the area.
• There is a Boryeong Mud Festival on the East Coast of Korea for fully clad contestants,
• While France has an annual International Contemporary Mime Festival.
• Japan hosts the Naked Festival with men dressed in oversize diapers parading through the winter streets while people throw cold water over the contestants who drink copious amounts of sake.
• In Kawasaki there is a festival where the men carry 12 foot phallus and the women two foot versions.
• In the tropical islands of Vanuatu there is the annual land dive on the tropical island of Pentecost. The virile young men of the village dive 30 metres off  a rickety looking tower on home-made vines, with the aim of letting their shoulders (or heads) sweep the ground. All this in order for the next yam harvest to be a good one. Queen Elizabeth of England was witness to the death of one of the jumpers.
• Having tried everything else you can end up in Bombay at the annual laughing competition,
• Or roll over to Japan for the ‘No’ laughing competition where contestants are not permitted to laugh at the person trying to speak English.

It is important as a universal community we respect without censure, what and how others choose to celebrate. Each festival meets a particular need in the individuals of that nation and is an integral part of the people’s lives.

Maybe you can or add some more whacky festivals to the list, or come up with some whacky celebration of your own. If you do, please let us know so we can enjoy it too.

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