Which one is the most colorful festival in your area?

We are so boring in the UK - why do you think people like me are saving up to go to India?! We have ... let's see ... well, there's the Notting Hill Carnival, but that's mostly organised by Carribean/W.Indies communities so again we're relying on an influx of ideas from abroad. We do have a lot of local processions etc linked to certain areas. There's the Festival of flowers in Jersey, where floats bedecked in the island's flowers parade with bandsetc - I went to that years back; very bright and colorful. And cornwall has the Floral Dance in Helston - I think people dance through the streets wearing flowers there, as well. Terry Wogan sang a song about it - good reason for steering clear, IMHO! Years ago I used to go to the Battersea Park Easter parade, though that got stopped - probably on 'elf 'n safety grounds. I took part one year, when I was 14. UK Easter's aren't renowned for warmth - I was dressed as a Hawaiian hula girl, and it was SNOWING! It was one of London'd biggest attractions (not me, the show) - lots of bands, bright floats, horses and so on. Don't think anything here matches up to what you have though.

We don't really have colourful festivals in our part of the world.A bit dull next to Indian people and other Asian countries.When you see China on the TV I feel quite jealous of all the colour and spectical.We do have the changing of the guard at Buckingham palace.xx

We have a festival that celebrates young students who graduate. We call it All Schools' Day. We have bands and floats in this parade, At the end we have horses, My friends sometimes ride their horses to

Hello coolmailraj I think India is the only country where in 12 months 13 festivals are celebrated. So in my opinion almost all festival are colourful. But for me most colourful festival is Durgapuja and Diwali. pkc3000

I gess it's Holi and Diwali. Actualy I don't Participate in these fasitvals in my area but very colourfull festivals.

Christmas is the most colorful festival in the USA, most towns have a parade and a Santa for the children. The decorations and lights are on the outside of many homes all across the country. We love this celebration. Even those who are not Christian can't help but enjoy how colorful this time of year is.

you and me belong to the same country..so of course the festivals are same, but to tell u really, each Indian festival is unique in its own way. Not only Holi but Diwali, dusshera, each is filled with colors, not practically colors but there is color of love, truthfulness and unity in our festivals.

Yes in India Holi is the most colorful festival in all.On this day everyone forgets their old hatred and celebrate this festival with full joy and enthusiasm.On this day everyone colors each others faces with water colors and gulal (its a dry color i.e powdered) . On this very special day every one eats one special sweet i.e gunjhia .One more practice also followed on this day is throwing ballons on each other especially by children which is very risky as it could hurt the victim.So that should be avoided.

We have lots of beautiful festivals here in the Philippines. I do not know which is the most beautiful. But I think the most popular is the Sinulog festival in Cebu. If you love flowers, you should watch Panagbenga festival in Baguio.

The city I live in has a nickname, the City of Festivals. We have many throughout the year, including Chocolate, Shakespeare, Jazz, Arts in the Park, Music..almost too many to list, but those are my favorites. We have nothing as colorful as the Holi festival that you have. Probably the closest would be Mardi Gras in New Orleans, but 've never been to that. Do you have any pictures of Holi that you can post? Would love to see them!

Hello coolmailraj!!! Well I am from Nepal and in Nepal there are many festivals in a year. Each month there is at least a one festival and all religious. And sure there is also the holi festival in my country too. There are some of the similar festivals here and there in India. After all we are neighbors. And it is the only day for playing with colors, this color and that color. But I think, Indians use most colors than us. Most of the people tend to use red what we call sindur. So same here...holi is the most colorful one among many festivals.... Happy mylotting...

hey there i would say that that is the most colorful festival all over India..........being an Indian i would say that it is holi anytime.....

I just witnessed Sinulog in Cebu once but they say Masskara of Bacolod City is much brighter.Baguio City's Pinagbenga Festival is much awaited event up north of the Philippines

We have a lot of colorful festival in china.But the most colorful is the chinese new year.We see the spring festival evening pary in the last day of a year.And all the members of tht family are together.It is excite.In the new,we have a lot of activities.Also we have all kinds of food to eat.

that would be the carafest parade in July of every year, people from the caribbean dance down the streets in some of the most dazzling customs you were ever see, it is like mardi gras, in brazil, it is beautiful.

I am adding my sons photograph to show you how we celebrate the clourful holi in th photo section. its lovely

I am adding my sons photograph to show you how we celebrate the clourful holi

I don't know of a festival here in the Phil like that. What we do have are colorful fluvial parades and the festive Sinulog, Dinagyang, Ati-Atihan and many more of similar nature where street dancing of costumed merry makers are the standard fare. Almost every province/region have their own festival but have close similarities on how they are celebrated. How is Holi celebrated? I watched one feature where people throw colorful dyes to each other. Is this Holi?

We don't have anything like it that I know of in the states. A friend of mine teaches yoga and she is thinking of letting the kids do something similar at the end of the term.

Colourful day in whole India is holi, only. But when i was in Nasik, there people use to celeberate a colourful day after 5 days to holi and call it Basant Panchmi.