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PIX: Add colour to life with world's messiest festivals
Take a look at some of the world's festivals that need you to let your hair down and simply have good time
Boryeong Mud Festival
The Daecheon beach in Boryeong, South Korea, plays host to millions from around the world who seek a break from their daily routine and just want to have pure fun.
The purported benefits of a good soak in the mud are most likely not the reason most people head to this beach. There's mud wrestling, mud sliding and swimming in, you guessed it, mud.
Coloured mud is also produced for body painting. A large stage is erected on the beach, which is used for live music, competitions and various other visual attractions.
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Boryeong Mud Festival
Tourists take pictures with a mobile phone after playing in the mud during the Boryeong Mud Festival at Daecheon beach in Boryeong.
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Songkran
Songkran festival, which falls in the hottest time of the year in Thailand, is celebrated as the traditional New Year's Day.
The most obvious celebration is the throwing of water on others. Thais roam the streets with containers of water or water guns. Revellers stand on roadsides with garden hoses or large new plastic trash cans filled with water (usually ice cold) that is used to drench pedestrians and vehicles.
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Songkran
Revellers enjoy foam and splashing water during Songkran Festival celebrations in Bangkok.
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Els Enfarinats
Citizens of Ibi annually celebrate the festival with a battle using flour, eggs and firecrackers. The battle takes place between two groups, a group of married men called 'Els Enfarinats' which take the control of the village for one day pronouncing a whole of ridiculous laws and fining the citizens that infringe them and a group called 'La Oposicio' which try to restore order.
At the end of the day the money collected from the fines is donated to charitable causes in the village. The festival has been celebrated since 1981 after the town of Ibi recovered the tradition but the origins remain unknown.
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Els Enfarinats
A Reveller takes part in the battle of 'Enfarinats', a flour fight in celebration of the Els Enfarinats festival on December Ibi, Spain.
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Orange Battle
The Battaglia delle arance is an age-old celebration and the largest food fight in Italy. Thousands come together at Ivrea to participate in this year's 'fight'.
Dressed up as Middle Age kings' guards, a group of men ride in a horse-drawn carriage and pelt 'foot soldiers' with oranges as thousands of people gather to re-enact a Middle Age battle when the townsfolk of Ivrea overthrew an evil king. In a strange twist, instead of swords and cross bows, these days the weapons of choice are oranges.
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Orange Battle
Italians hold an orange battle during a carnival in the northern Italian town of Ivrea.
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Glastonbury
Glastonbury Festival is the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world.
The festival aims to encourage and stimulate youth culture from around the world in all its forms, including pop music, dance music, jazz, folk music, fringe theatre, drama, mime, circus, cinema, poetry and all the creative forms of art and design, including painting, sculpture and textile art.
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Glastonbury
Gary Wright and Jon Williams wear light costumes in Shangri La field at Glastonbury music festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset.
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Holi
Colours of all hues, the smell of 'gulal' and joyous spirit pervade the streets in India as people step out to celebrate Holi. Revelers tumble out on the streets with gulal and colour-filled pichkaris to celebratethe festivalof Holi and welcome the beautiful spring season.
Holi is celebrated in every part of India and many regions across the world in their own traditional ways.
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Holi
A boy sprays coloured foam during Holi celebrations in a lane near the Bankey Bihari temple in Vrindavan, in Uttar Pradesh.
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International Pillow Fight
On International Pillow Fight Day, massive pillow fights breakout in cities around the world.
Hundreds of participants gathered in North Point Park in Cambridge to battle with pillows for the The International Pillow Fight Day 2013 in Boston. Participants hit random strangers with pillows.
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International Pillow Fight
People fight with pillows during International Pillow Fight Day in Budapest.
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World Bodypainting Festival
World Body painting Festival, which was held at Poertschac, Austria, is a one of a kind event in the world.
It draws the best two hundred body painting artist teams and models, as well as tens of thousands of visitors, from all over the world every year.
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World Bodypainting Festival
A model poses for photographers during the annual World Bodypainting Festival in Poertschach.
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