by thatfestivallife | Mar 19, 2019 | Cultural Festivals, Festivals in Asia, Festivals in India, India
Back in March 2017 on my first travels through India I spent the incredible festival of Holi in Pushkar which is one of the biggest traveller hubs for this hectic colourful festival. I’ve had quite a few questions about my experience and always seem to have a...
by thatfestivallife | Feb 10, 2018 | Cultural Festivals, Festivals in Asia, Festivals in India, India
On my first trip to India in 2017 my fourth stop was a visit to the lovely beachy area of Gokarna in north Karnataka. I happened to be there in mid-February and some pals I met told me I had to stay for the Shivaratri festival, as a temple town predominantly...
by thatfestivallife | Jan 23, 2018 | Festival Reviews, Festivals in Asia, India
And so Festival Season 2018 commences…. as my two Indian festivals of 2017 (GOAT in January and Magnetic Fields in December) neatly bracketed the year does this mean there is no such thing as an actual festival season anymore!? I wasn’t planning on...
by thatfestivallife | Dec 29, 2017 | Featured, Festival Reviews, Festivals in Asia, Festivals in India
Magnetic Fields reverberated its way on to my radar back when I was in India last year as a load of people I met through working on GOAT festival had been and come back to Goa raving about it… A weekend music festival set not just in a palace, but in a...
by thatfestivallife | Dec 26, 2017 | India, Travel
Whilst I lived in Arambol last time, the Saturday Night Market in Arpora, Goa was one of the main weekly social events I went to. The first time I went I couldn’t believe the scale of it and how well it was organised… I was expecting some kind of flea...
