We love us some festivals around here. There really isn’t anything quite like a good festival, as no one event on Earth combines 70s cover bands, stank hillbillies, and elephant ears better than they often do. I’m well aware though, that not all festivals around the world are like our semi-legal Midwest festivals. In fact, while we may be content to sit and watch trailer trash drunkenly argue with each other over which Waylon Jennings cover band is the best, people across the world may be watching two camels wrestle to the death. Or maybe even watch a bunch of monkeys eat buffet style. Or maybe eve-

Wait, what?

Monkey Buffet Festival Thailand

November, 2009

Lopburi, Thailand 

Over 600 monkeys are invited to feast on over two tonnes of grilled sausage, fresh fruit, icea cream and other treats. The locals see it as a thank you to the monkeys which inhabit the village and bring thousands of tourists their each year.

Wow, I didn’t misread that at all. There’s more where that came from, too; Including an entire festival dedicated to being naked, and one that celebrates the awesomeness of radishes. Yes, radishes.

In the 16th century, after radishes were brought to the Americas, vegetable sellers used to make sculptures of radishes to advertise in the markets. Since 1897 the custom has been celebrated with an annual festival, with the best sculptors awarded cash prizes.

Somehow cheering on the local insane drunk in a fried candy bar eating contest doesn’t quite sound as bad as it did before. There’s even more if you follow this link over yonder to another website where you can learn what the rest of the world does when it gets too many drunk people together outdoors.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/festivalsandevents/5188191/The-worlds-weirdest-festivals.html