Festicket.com, the festival travel specialist which provides a one-click booking service for your next festival trip, has put together its list of the craziest music festivals around the world taking place this summer.
From Spain's La Tomatina, Italy's Ivrea Orange Festival and El Salvador's Bolas de Fuego, all of which involve going to a city to throw tomatoes, oranges or fire at other people, to Japan's Onbashira Festival, where huge trees are cut down and dragged through the mountains before being ridden down steep slopes - the world is home to some pretty wild and wonderful festivals.
This summer, Festicket has compiled its personal selection of equally exciting and unique music festivals - which involve getting married in Ukraine, encountering festival fauns in the USA and being reborn in The Netherlands.
Get married at KaZantip festival, Ukraine
KaZantip festival, 31 July - 14 August 2013, is the best place for DJs, sport addicts and party animals. Set in the hippest location, Ukraine's Popovka, the festival is situated directly on the black sea and is one of the longest, craziest, liveliest and most unusual electronic music and extreme sports festivals in the world! Dancefloors are situated on a platform over the lake, in a huge circus tent, built in a flying saucer ten metres above the beach and in the shape of a Roman Coliseum.
KaZantip sees itself as a country rather than a festival and has been proclaimed an independent republic. It's a magical realm where the most beautiful festival-goers are crowned Z Queens and reign over the party land. It also has its own ministers - ministers of happiness, dance and rave, intellect, visuals and illusions - and its own law: "be happy, have fun and enjoy life". Festival-goers can even get married: official weddings, only recognised in KaZantip, take place once a week at twilight. The ritual is sealed with the affixation of a love-lock to KaZantip's love bridge.
Packages to KaZantip start from £427 per person with Festicket.com.
Festival in a fantasy world at Tomorrowland, USA
Since starting seven years ago, Tomorrowland, 27 - 29 September 2013, has expanded to become one of the largest dance festivals in Europe and now the craziness moves to the Chattahoochee Hills, USA.
The three days of fantasy, theme-park style partying includes incredible decorations, with ten-metre high tulips towering over the world's biggest DJs, a Ferris wheel, fauns lurking in the woods, Buddhas shaking with the base, giant candy canes and super heroes standing by swimming pools. The festival takes place in an 8,000 acre paradise filled with rolling pastures, lakes and woodlands. Headliners include Tiesto, Ferry Corsten and Hardwell.
Packages start from £318 per person with Festicket.com.
Plant Trees and feel reborn at Mysteryland festival, The Netherlands
Mysteryland, taking place on 24 August 2013, brings an explosion of various electronic styles and returns to the Floriade terrain near Amsterdam each year with more beautiful stage colours and cooler national and international acts.
This is one of The Netherland's biggest dance music festivals and also features some of the best onsite stages and entertainment in the world, with the likes of oversized teddy bears, Disney-esque castles and huge lion-faced stages featuring in the past. Visit the Healing Garden, a place where you can be at peace with yourself, relax and from which you might even leave feeling reborn. Alternatively, plant a tree to neutralise your carbon footprint. So far, 2,000 trees have been planted and a true festival forest has been created!
Packages to Mysteryland start from £185 per person with Festicket.com.
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