There are famous sports meetings and other annual sporting events. Some events
feature animals - there are wonderful festivals dedicated to elephants in
Thailand, camels in India and Australia, and eagles in Mongolia. Other festivals
seem to be plain silly, like the World Bog Snorkelling Championships in Wales,
or the World Wife Carrying Championships in Finland, or boating without any
water at the Henley-on-Todd Regatta and cockroach racing in Australia. And of
course, there is music: from opera in Verona, classical music in Prague to
electronic music at KaZantip in Ukraine, from jazz in Monterey to rock at Exit
in Serbia or world music in Sarawak and