FESTIVALS KNOCKING ON YOUR SCREEN

Mahmoud Drira
3 min readOct 30, 2020

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Before our World experience the covid that unfortunately turned our life’s upside down from all aspects breaking our economies, laying off millions of people off work and also cancelling all our night outs and vacation plans

Well before all of this madness…

…every season throughout the year. Thousands of festivals knocks off around the globe from the biggest and most known ones to the little secret ones that you never heard of and probably you’ll never will.

Usually most of us go through a lot during the first months of the year from work and the cold of winter days and mostly our dedication to the gym just so we can earn that perfect body to take it along in the summer. Once June comes that’s when we can start pack our stuffs withdraw our savings and go ahead with our plans from going to the beach to traveling to the warm coastal cities to relief ourselves …

And many of us take a different vacation plan such as staying by the coast. I know it’s very classic to do it nowadays especially if you’re still young and tons of energy shines out of you.

Summer Festivals !!!!! yes … that’s where many young lads be choose to go to every summer.

Usually the only Festivals held in the summer are the ones that we know or at least we’ve heard about it at least once .

From burning man to Tomorrow Land to Ibiza music festival in Europe and many others.

Those festivals are usually known to be located at either the united states or Europe. But!

There’s a festival that it’s being held every year in the desert of Saudi Arabia. A nation that it’s known for religious conservatism, very limited freedoms and faces accusations of human rights violations.

This country is actually home to one of the awesome festivals that you’d attend in your life.

The “Winter at Tantora Festival”. Is more like a little combination of burning man’s desert feeling and Coachella’s music concerts . Different from many big events and festivals that happens to be in summer the Winter at Tantora is usually on in the last 2 weeks of December until the beginning of March.

It ranges from sports such as desert polo Eco trail races and hikes .

To adventures on all kind of transportation vehicles to discover the heritage sites and the old natural oasis of the Arabian desert

Also you can take a ride on the hot air balloons or the vintage aircrafts which is a lot of fun to experience.

And aside from all of this you’re not done yet. yes! You will attend music events held by the most phenomenal musicians and singers around the globe.

And unlike some festivals. you don’t really need to bring your own food and drinks with you because you will be surrounded by a variety of food from the traditional Arabian food to even five stars restaurants.

It’s interesting to discover such a huge and wonderful festival hidden in the deserts of the Arabian gulf. And how our world can hide a lot of fun and interesting places that we never hear about.

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Mahmoud Drira
Mahmoud Drira

Written by Mahmoud Drira

entrepreneur, content writer, comedian

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