World Party: The Rough Guide to the World's Best Festivals

by Rough Guides

It''s Party Time! - The Rough Guide World Party is a detailed guide to the world''s best events and festivals. If you''ve ever thought of partying in Rio, throwing tomatoes in Spain or riding a camel in Pushkar, this guide is for you. Full-colour throughout with detailed accounts of each major festival and insider tips on how best to enjoy each one. The useful ''festival keys'' will help you to find the perfect world festival, from the best music, food and arts festivals to long-established religious celebrations to less ancient raves and fruit-throwing events. The guide comes complete with a festival map and calendar with background details and timings for each event. If you love a party The Rough Guide World Party is for you. Join the party at worldparty.roughguides.com

Genres: Travel, Nonfiction

400 pages, Paperback

First published December 4, 2006

About the author

Founded in 1982, Rough Guides Ltd is a British publisher of print and digital guide book, phrasebooks and inspirational travel reference books, and a provider of personalised trips. Since November 2017, Rough Guides has been owned by APA Publications UK Ltd, the parent company of Insight Guides.
With the company's personalised trip service encompassing over eighty destinations, and 200 guidebooks covering 180 destinations, Rough Guides is a multi-faceted travel platform, with global sales of 100 million guidebooks since their inception.

Reviews

[Katie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a must-own reference for any travel lover, and would be an excellent resource in travel planning or just day dreaming. I checked it out from the library, but I liked it enough to add it to my wish list. The book is a weighty full-color guide to world festivals, parties, and events, such as Oktoberfest, Carnival, Burning Man, and Fiesta de San Fermin. Each festival has a couple of pages devoted to it, including information such as date, location, maps, insets, and notable facts. The book is sorted by continent, and there are handy month and country lists as well. My only small criticism is with "The Best of the Rest" sections. Each festival is only described with a paragraph or two; it would have been nice to have more information about each, but it would have definitely made the book quite a bit thicker.

[LINDA · Rating 4 out of 5]

What a fun book to flip through! The photos and discriptions of the various world parties are fantastic!

The ones that were of most interest to me were:

p. 76 La Tomatina in Bunol, Spain. Huge tomato fight!

p. 114 Oktoberfest. With the way we celebrate this in Pittsburgh at the Penn Brewery, I can't imagine that we would survive the real thing! :-) The big six beers are listed as Augustiner, Hacker-Pschorr, Hofbrau, Lowenbrau, Paulaner, Spaten.

p.154 Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling. This is hystarical, they throw cheese down a hill and people run/roll/tumble down the hill after it!

p 260 Aloha Festival in Hawaii in 6 weeks long in September and October.

[Tiger · Rating 5 out of 5]

Get me on the next plane so I can PARTY across the Planet Earth, baby !!!!! WHhhhhhhhaaaaaoooooooooooooooooo YEAHHH !

GREAT GREAT BOOK !!!! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ifin ewe likes to celebrate the global Jung collective PARTY way that aye dew!

[David Ward · Rating 3 out of 5]

World Party: The Rough Guide to the World's Best Festivals (Penguin 2007) (394.2) makes me want to pack a suitcase today. I've shared this book with my sixteen-year-old budding photographer who loves to travel in hopes that it will inspire her. My rating: 7/10, finished 12/1/2010.

[Cherie · Rating 2 out of 5]

B- Disappointing; very Eurocentric

[Rat de bibliothèque · Rating 5 out of 5]

My husband is in the book on page 10. Look for the bald man with the yellow infinity tattoo on his arm.

We found out about this two years after we got the book.