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Africa is the place to be this holiday season. The continent elicits very mixed reactions from would-be tourists. Festivals, costumes, jungles and cultures are inherently African.
Africa is one of the remaining places in the world that is known for its natural beauty; beauty that is both scenic and truly exotic. A true travel experience that will truly mesmerize you ought to be a holiday spent in Africa. Every West African festival is exciting and worth looking forward to. Indeed, the entire African continent has much to offer, more than you can imagine.
The most daring African safaris are found in Kenya, Namibia, Mauritius, Zambia and even Egypt. African safaris are meant to offer you the real experience of being on the African continent. Such a travel experience lives on long after you have gone back home. This is why you need to take some pictures in order to relive some of the adventures encountered. Anyone who has decided to come to Africa to witness its flora and fauna can have prior travel arrangements put in place. Many resorts dot crucial attractions; you just need to make a safari location and tour choice and then book.
 African Safaris A tour to the East African region brings you face to face with The Big Five. These include lion, elephant, cheetah, leopard and buffalo. African Safaris are a true experience and an amazing adventure.
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All African communities know all about the significance of tribal masks and costumes. No African Festival can be complete without these forms of decorations. Sometimes spiritual overtones also contribute to the interpretation of the influence of these items.
African traditions are both interesting and intriguing in equal measure. For instance, most of the African communities believe that circling villages while wearing carnival costumes and tribal masks brings about good fortunes to the people. African festival traditions from the continent borrow heavily form a single act that involves collecting and putting together objects such as bones, shells, beads and fabrics so as to make a sculpture, a skull, or even a mere costume. All these objects are said to add to a certain force that contributes to the spiritual significance of the whole object.
 African tribal masks When feathers are used on the African tribal masks during festivals, they represent the power to rise above other people so as to conquer them. In another sense, the feathers represent the ability to conquer problems, weaknesses, pains, illnesses and heartbreaks. Carnival costumes have always been made in the same way all over the world only that in Africa, a powerful spiritual dimension is added to them.
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The Knysna Oyster Festival was started in 1983 in Western Cape, South Africa. The initiator was the late Dick Ginsberg, a successful local businessman. The inaugural ‘Knysna Winter Festival’ organized by the Knysna Publicity Committee drew huge audiences and participants who made the marathon, golf, rugby, and bowls tournament an instant success.
During the 1984 Knysna Oyster Festival, the Navy got involved in the organization process. The Chief of the Navy visited Knysna accompanied by a navy minesweeper and several crew members. Again in 1988, a conferment was made on the army during the Freedom of Entry event that marked the historic participation of the municipal authorities in Knysna. The aim of the festival remains to attract as many people to the sporting competitions during the winter period when many people are characteristically passive.
 Oyster eating competition The 1985 event saw the inclusion of Argus cycling tours into the Knysna Oyser festival. As the attention slowly shifts to the 2009 event, it is the dream of every South African career cyclist to feature in the challenging and adventurous Knysna Forest Marathon that always comes with a great fun for both the participants and the spectators.
The Knysna Oyster Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary this year and it is expected that a visit by navy officials will make all South African people shift the spotlight to the amazing sporting event.
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This African festival that is planned to take place from the 23rd to 26th September this year. It is an amazing performance that is always accompanied by many eclectic performances that suit the tastes of everyone in attendance. Hermanus in South Africa is the best place in the world for whale watching and this makes the Hermanus Whale Festival unique.
The Hermanus Whale Festival is an event that many first-time attendants describe as extremely innovative and exciting. About 2000 attendants create a very long human chain that runs along a unique land that many people refer to as Cliff Path. It is here that they perform a very electric dance that is meant to welcome whales into dry land. It is only at this time that whales are welcome. The event of Welcome Whales Wave is normally filmed for viewing on TV and other broadcast media.
 Welcome Whales Wave in Hermanus The rationale behind the Hermanus Whale Festival is appreciating the unity that has seen South Africa maintain its cultural identity especially in the environment of many changes in democracy, economic standing and social cohesion over the past decade. The 24th September Heritage Day is a perfect time for people to spread this awareness in the presence of many local and international attendants.
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Oppikoppi is the name given to the annual music festival which has always been held in Limpopo province, South Africa since 1994. The only genre at the inaugural festival was rock music. Today, the Oppikoppi music festival has a complete mix of music genres that define the world of music as seen through an African festival experience.
Those who started this amazing African festival claim that it was not their intention for things to happen the way they happened. It all started with some gigs that were performed in an indoor bushveld business premise. The event was meant to be entirely hedonistic but turned out to be something more pragmatic.
During the second Oppikoppi music festival of 1995, 27 rock bands were invited to perform. There were about 2,000 people who attended the event. It is said that almost everyone who attended the event which had only one stage has either a wound or a unique story or both of them to show for their attendance. The Oppikoppi was the first music festival that proved to the world that South Africa had much to show for its rich musical heritage.
 Oppokoppi The event planted a foundation and subsequent events just had to grow in both magnitude and coverage. No wonder many other music genres were incorporated into the Oppikoppi festival. Everything that is inherently African, or South African for that matter, somehow finds its way into the festival before the rest of the world appreciates it. Whether it is the costume-wearing traditional dancers or mask-wielding Khoikhoi warriors, South African traditions have found their way into
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It takes three days of sailing along the Niger River to reach Timbuktu, the town that is nearest to the venue of the Festival of the Desert. African culture is manifest everywhere; along the Niger River, in Timbuktu, along the two-hour drive across sand dunes from Timbuktu to Essakane, and during the three days of the festival. The Festival in the Desert takes a special place among the other African festivals and Tuareg people, those ‘Blue people’ add color to diversity of the African culture.
The Festival in the Desert is celebrated by the Tuareg people every year. The festival features both traditional Tuareg music and modern Malian lyrics. The next festival is tentatively scheduled from 7th to 10th January 2010. It will be held in Essakane, Timbuktu, at the heart of the Sahara Desert. Therefore the festival is also referred as Essakane Festival.
 Tuareg music One way of getting to Timbuktu in time for the festival is via the Niger River. Once you reach this town, you have to travel over land for the rest of the journey. Once an international flight arrives in Bamako, many visitors prefer to book a hotel so as to remain in this city overnight. The following day marks the beginning of the Festival in the Desert through the Malian heartland. The sight of traditional villages and rural lifestyles of Tuareg people is just amazing.
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African culture is renowned for festivals. There is something about the African festival culture that makes the activities of these festivals original and exotic. The Nigerian Ogba community holds the New Yam Festival annually while the Tuareg are culturally attached to the Festival in the Desert.
The New Yam Festival among the Ogba people in Nigeria is a distinctive African festival. This community is agriculturally endowed and also has an amazing aqua culture. The New Yam Festival is meant to harmonize the people so as to bring about more coherence. This is the time when people’s speeches are spoken without any political overtones. According to the Ogba culture, The New Yam Festival festival ought to take place every August. Carnival costumes worn during The New Yam Festival is a part of African culture and represent great fun as Africans interpret it.
 New Yam Festival Wrestlers fight while wearing carnival costumes during New Yam Festival in Nigeria. It is hard to witness an African festival that lacks some form of wrestling competition. Most of these competitions are between rival clans or ethnic groups.
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