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| Volunteers serve a free breakfast at Cheyenne Frontier Days in Wyoming. |
Editor's Note
Festivals as Culture
You can tell a lot about a community by the festivals they put on. Some regions are into the arts; others like sports competitions. Many cities celebrate their heritage with cultural fests, and others devote their efforts to musical celebrations.
Festivals are a window into the lives of a society — revealing what the community values and how they like to spend their time. That’s one reason why we consistently cover festivals in the pages of Go World Travel. (The other reason is that they’re so much fun!)
This month, we head to the high plains of Wyoming for one of the world’s largest cowboy festivals. Cheyenne Frontier Days is a ten-day rodeo that not only commemorates the region’s distinct western culture; it shows off Cheyenne’s volunteer spirit. Some 2,500 residents of this small Wyoming town (pop. 55,000) give their time to host more than half a million visitors during the celebration.
From Cheyenne, we head around the world to Cairo, where Trent Rockwood picks up a few bargains at the Friday Market in the City of the Dead. Joan Fitting Scott learns that you don’t need much to be happy in Antigua, and Warwick Johnston takes a wild bike ride through Sofia, Bulgaria.
If you’d like to soak in the last vestiges of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, read Kathleen Ganster’s report on camping on Assateague Island, Maryland, or soak in the White Nights on our Baltic summer cruise.
Have a unique festival in your own home town? Tell us about it! We aim to cover the world — including yours.
Happy Travels,
Janna Graber, Managing Editor
Go World Travel
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