Hello. My name is Kirill. How are you? I will
tell you about two festivals: lemon festival and Garma festival.
First of all I will tell about lemon festival. Every
February to March, the people of Menton celebrate their lemons and oranges with
a three-week long lemon festival that attracts over 200,000 visitors. Artists
design and create amazing huge statues for the festival using over 145 tons of
lemons and oranges. The artists make everything from giant bananas to dinosaurs
and some of the statues can measure more than 10 metres tall. There is a daily
Citrus Exposition where people come to see the amazing creations and buy local
products made from oranges and lemons. On Sundays, floats carrying the citrus
statues go through the town in the Parade of Golden Fruit and on Thursdays
crowds gather to watch colorful night parades with music and dancers as well as
fireworks. Each year, there is a different theme and the creators let their
imaginations run wild. Whether you like food and art, or simply need some
vitamin C, Menton is a pretty good place to be in February and March.
Also how I said I will tell about
Garma festival. The sound of the didgeridoo, the traditional musical instrument
of Aboriginal Australians, announces the beginning of the Garma Festival. This
annual celebration of Aboriginal culture is a call to all people to come
together in unity. During the festival, visitors enjoy the traditional art,
dance, music and song of the Yolngu tribe, but Garma is not just about the ways
that the Yolngu did things in the past. The Garma Festival is also about their
future.
I told you about very interesting festivals (I
think). Thank you for your attention. Goodbye.
