as held in the streets of Rio, where beautifully clothed people threw streamers and confetti and danced for four days. Nowadays, the worlds biggest street party has become a pleasure only for those who can afford the entrance fee.
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Maslenitsa
There are own special traditions and festivals in Russia. One of the most famous, cheerful and loved by people is Maslenitsa. It lasts for a week to say "good bye" to winter. This festival is celebrated at the end of February or at the beginning of March depending on the church calendar.
During this festival people celebrate the end of winter and the beginning of spring. In old times people usually cooked pancakes, had fires, burnt straw scarecrows of winter, sang songs and danced. Nowadays to mark the occasion people always cook pancakes too. They invite their friends, their nearest and dearest to see each other and eat tasty pancakes with sour cream, fish, caviar or butter, sugar, honey. People burn fires, play games, sledge, build snow fortresses and attack them with snowballs. Songs can be heard everywhere till late night.
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The Tibetan Butter Lamp Festival
Buddhists believe that nothing is permanent, and on the 9th of March they celebrate this belief. Long before the festival begins, monks make their preparations by mixing brightly-coloured dyes into huge quantities of iced butter. It takes them several months to carve the frozen butter into highly decorated statues, some of them as much as 8 metres high. On the day of the festival itself, the sculptures - supported by wooden frames - are carried through the streets and greeted with cheers from the excited crowds. Afterwards, the figures are thrown into a river by the monks who made them to dem
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