by Anthea Gerrie
Mardi Gras. Thailand's Full Moon Parties. Rio's Carnival.
It's all too easy for a traveler to have a stash of pictures, and memories, exactly the same as a million other travelers. So if you want an alternative story to tell, try these events for size.
1. International Ice Festival, IsraelThe ugliest papier-m�ch� ever created.
Nyepi, the Balinese Lunar New Year, is a day of absolute silence, contemplation and meditation preceded by 24 hours of glorious mayhem.
The Day of the Dead Moon sees locals converge on villages accompanied by huge papier-m�ch� gargoyles known as the ogoh-ogoh. Music, firecrackers and partying continue throughout the night, ending just before sunrise with the symbolic torching of the ogoh-ogohs.
On March 22, the Como Shambhala Estate near Ubud will stage is own noise parade, using Balinese cymbals and other instruments to scare out evil spirits -- but as their own ogoh-oghos are organic, they will be left to degrade in the ground instead of being torched.
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