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It is an amazing adventure when travelling abroad. One of the invaluable lessons going overseas is learning that each country and culture has its own oddities and eccentricities, but is of equal importance to all other threads in the quilt of humanity. The cultural story of the world is all weaved together by each regional color. Different cultures celebrate their holidays very differently depending on where they are from. Looking at the three prominent regions, we can picture how South Americans, Chinese and Indians celebrate holidays.

South America holidays are principally Catholic in nature. Some of the most popular holidays in South America are Saints festivals; Dia de Todos Los Santos for example fetes all Catholic saints, but each day of the year celebrates a specific saint. Individuals are often named for the saint whose day they were born on. One of the most celebrated festivals in South America is Carnaval, the equivalent of Mardi Gras and Fat Tuesday. This festival celebrates the day before the forty-day Catholic festival of Lent and involves vast celebrations of excess, samba music, and parades.

Holidays in China can be very diverse for the locals and are very dissimilar to other countries. China has a unique blend of cultures where the sacred and conventional meets the modern and the eccentric. The chinese celebrate their holidays with great spiritual importance. The spring festival, or Chinese New Year, is the biggest holiday celebrated in China. Virtually everyone in China hold the day sacred, partaking in rituals and ceremonies to ensure a blessed and healthy year ahead. A more modern holiday is Woman’s Day, a day that all women in China are permitted to take off work.

Holidays in India are very much different from the aforementioned countries. These holidays range from those related to Hinduism to Christian holidays, to Muslim celebrations. For people in India, holidays come every day of the year. The most famous civic holiday celebrated is the birthday of celebrated civil rights leader, Mohandas Gandhi. Gandhi’s natal day has been declared as a day of non-violence, and no booze is traded on this day in his honour.

Half of the experience when traveling is exploring about the culture of the country that you will be visiting. These holidays are a short list of the many marvellous and exhilarating holidays seen abroad.