Events and Festivals Search Engine

Ever plan your trip down to the last detail only to find you missed a fabulous festival or event just down the road the day after it happened? Use this handy search engine from Travel Cuts, a Canadian student travel agency, to find worldwide celebrations and happenings before you leave home - search by country, theme and/or date. The engine offers the option to search up to two years in advance, but you'll probably only see this year's dates for festivals unless they're annual events and take place at the same time every year - you'll see a disclaimer if it's possible that a particular festival's details may change.

Themes

- Arts
- Bizarre
- Classical Music
- Festivals and Heritage
- Gay and Lesbian
- Kids and Family
- Lifestyle
- Music and Nightlife
- Science & Knowledge
- Sport & Outdoors

Without specifying destinations, a random search for events and festivals in the ten theme categories pulls up interesting things to see and do each month:

July

August

September

Details

When you click into an event, you'll be taken to its individual page with details like dates, venue and contact info, location and directions, a weather link, tourist offices and a link to the event's website if one exists. Because Travel Cuts is a full-service student travel agency, a bonus is that any event's home page also contains links to information about the hosting country:

Overview

Introduction

Government

Environment

Society

Economy

Pre-departure

Climate

Communication

Getting There

Getting Around

Culture

Images

Map

The Bottom Line

The search engine is surprisingly comprehensive, considering that it attempts to cover events and festivals worldwide. Play around with it for a bit and you may find yourself changing your travel plans to make sure you hit the Swiss National Yodelling Contest or the Japanese Rice Planting Festival.

"I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full."
--Lord Dunsany