_______________ was created a long time ago when little communities of Oaxaca needed to change products among them. Over the years this celebration evolved and turned into an exchange of culture with music, dance and, theatre that becomes the streets of Oaxaca into a cultural place where you can find a mix of Mexican traditions.

Date: two Mondays after July 16th

Where: Oaxaca, Mexican southwest

Watch thousands upon thousands of rice-paper lanterns take to the night sky on Yi Peng. One of the best places to watch this beautiful festival is in Chiang Mai. The festival takes place on the full moon of the 12th (usually November).

Every Spring Bank Holiday near Gloucester sees the annual Cooper’s Hill ________________ take place. Participants line up in groups of about twenty to chase after a substantial wheel of cheese as it descends perilously down a steep incline.

Contestants have to carry their wives over a series of obstacles in the shortest amount of time.

Iemanja is the Goddess of the Sea and many worshippers honor her by providing offerings in mini-boats during New Year celebrations or leaving offerings of fruit, candles and cigarettes in shallow holes in the sand throughout the year.

As well as traditions that honour the lives (both past and present) of certain individuals, many countries observe traditions that honour the dead more widely. In the UK and countries across the Common wealth, for example, a two-minute silence is held at 11 am on 11 November. It marks the time at which the hostilities of the First World War ended in 1918.