Category: Traditions

What is Sky Burial?

Sky Burial, once commonly practiced in Tibet, was a funerary practice of dissecting human corpse, and placing the pieces on a mountaintop, for birds of prey to consume. The location of such burial, as...

What is La Tomatina?

What? La Tomatina is a festival of throwing tomatoes celebrated in Spain When? La Tomatina is held on the last Wednesday of August every year Where? This festival takes place in Buñol near Valencia in...

What is Gurning?

The verb gurn is about making distorted expression on the face. One of the most common, or rather typical gurn would involve protruding the lower jaw ahead and up, and hiding the upper lip...