Asia
This celebration is also known as Doll’s Day ( Girls’ Day) as well as Momo no Sekku (peach traditional festival) for the blossoming peach trees (celebrate the original Shangsi Festival).
Hinamatsuri is celebrated on March 3 each year and made in regards to young girls, and the hina dolls, which represent the Emperor, Empress, attendants, and musicians of the Heian period (794-1185).
Festival is celebrated differently across the country except some cultural features that link only to that festival – set of cute hina dolls, peach flower decorations, as well as festive food such as hina-arare (multi-colored rice crackers) and chirashizushi (sliced raw fish with rice)
Bust of confetti and coloured powder in your face! And this is just one component of Holi festival. In the evening of Holika Dahan, you will witness the way to celebrate the triumph of good over evil: celebrants burn pyres to symbolise the god Vishnu’s defeat of the demoness Holika.
This meaning of this is about welcoming the arrival of spring and summer in the hope of a rich harvest.
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Streets are full of random people who are ready to slam each other with coloured powder paint and water balloons! So to have everyone covered in colour and water in honour of the tradition.
This tradition including the bamboo pole, which is culturally representing good fortune, bonfires, music, dance and traditional authentic SWEETS that could be the first reason to leave bed…
Oh yeah its tricky to predict the exact date when the first blooms will take place but more of less 20th of March could be called officially as the first day of spring! And thats the sign for the Kyoto landscape to share that beauty of those fabled blush pink cherry blossoms. In 2023 it might happen a bit latter than 21st and more likely on 25th of March and will last till mid-April.
Basically, enough time for tourist to brows around the trees – from the end of March. But the cheapest time for it is in March!
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Keep in mind you find it difficult to appreciate this magnificent Mother nature phenomenon to its fullest on the weekends…warning – its way crowded!
Europe
Do you want to see a massive street carnival with lots of drinking where city dwellers enjoy the parades, live music, vendors, cultural food or whatever you may find there, and more fun on O’Connell Street and across the whole Ireland (Dublin).
Even if you are not a drinker you will find the festivity of your taste there and raise a glass (with a juice if so) to honour Ireland’s patron saint. Definitely considered as one of the best festivals in March around the world. If you are not in Ireland, St Patricks Day is celebrated in many countries so you won’t miss the time to raise your beer glass to celebrate.
North America
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Spectacular event! what else… ok it’s officially UNESCO-protected celebration taking place at Mayan ruin – this would already attract a crowd to observe whatever is given…precisely the luminous display on the pyramid of Kukulcán, who is Mesoamerican serpent deity or “plumed serpent” – the creator god of rain, wind, storms, life, and rejuvenation, was worshipped by the Yucatec Maya, guess this god was very popular.
Maya were clever and they could define if its equinox or not by watchtower-style structures at the temple complex of Chichen Itza where the equinoxes and solstices were obsrved. This year of 2023 the Equinox will be dated around March 19th, so it is still s
During the spring equinox the merge and interplay of the sun and shadow makes the illusion of a snake slithering down the staircase – the sign of Kukulcán’s return to earth, and the image of seeing this natural phenomena yourself will stay with you forever ever…
