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You can plan a quiet family getaway to a cottage on a lake or plan a trip to El Salvador to throw fireballs at the annual balls of fire festival. Such is the beauty of travel, you can always discover a new experience. Checking out weird and wild festivals is one way to guarantee you have stories to tell when you get home. Here are a few festivals that have a couple of things in common; they are very popular and they lack common sense.

Visit Gloucestershire, England for the Cheese Rolling Festival on May 25^th. This annual event kicks off the wacky festival season. Contestants run down a very steep slope chasing a wheel-shaped Double Gloucester cheese. Most lose there footing at the top and roll down the hill head over heels risking injury for the first prize of a big roll of cheese.

July 1-14^th celebrate the 4^th of July (maybe for the last time) at the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain. You might want to be a spectator at this event, 15 people have died and hundreds have been injured running with the bulls since it started in 1924.

In July Berlin is home to the Wasserschlacht Battle. Locals hurl eggs, food and water bombs at each other. The festival has been running for 11 years. It can get dangerous as people get carried away and rioting often ensues.

At the Balls of Fire Festival on August 31^st in Nejapa, El Salvador the locals honor a 1917 volcanic eruption by throwing fireballs (balls of cloth soaked in fuel) at each other in mini battles.

Sept 4^th and 5^th head to Prairie Du Sac, Wisconsin, for the 39^th annual Cow Chip Throw. Cow chip (AKA dried cow dung) throwing has grown to become the most anticipated event in town.

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Date: Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 at 11:52 | Category: travel, tripsay | RSS Feed: RSS 2.0 feed.
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