It’s happening right now in India and it’s very hot. I mean the Gourmet’s dishes. If you are a traveler and a Gourmet, then you strike a dual deal in Goa. Indian cuisines are aplenty in varieties proportionate to its diversified culture and states. Recognizing the need for a feast that would highlight Indian cuisines under one roof, five-star luxury giant Goa Marriott has organized a 10 day long food festival in Goa. This coincides with Independence week (incidentally India’s Independence Day falls on August 15) and has been named ‘Flavors of India’.

Anybody right there in Goa now may attend the festival or anybody proceeding towards Goa may take note of the festival in order to taste some spicy Indian dishes from states of Tamilnadu, Punjab, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Gujarat and Maharashtra.

Cutting wood is serious business and that requires a lot of stamina and expertise. If it’s a competition it would be much tougher. A competition was held in Germany recently, where many wood cutters participated to show their strength and speed to chop and finish the wood cut from trees and sawing it with élan. Scores of participants attended the competition from different places.

Again it’s Germany, but on the news for a different festival. A woman had her one half of the face painted with a castle and many such paintings on people were done in Germany, which was something different. It may sound interesting for tourists from other parts to know about such festivals. The festival took place in the western German City of Mainz on August 10, where 60 body painters took part in the competition. If, by chance any one had the opportunity to see the event, it would have been a day to reckon with in their tour movements.

Placing thousands of cards in series and arranging them into various shapes not only needs patience, but also tremendous imagination and hard work to gain attraction and applause from the spectators. Domino cards are similar to playing cards and which were played last week in Germany. Members participated in placing cards with shapes like ‘Titanic ship’ and it took a maximum of 15 minutes to crumble an entire set of nearly 15,500 cards in an orderly fashion.