India

Holi (Hindi), or Phagwa (Bhojpuri), also called the festival of colors, is a popular Hindu festival, the most pagan festival of the Indian calendar, the day when anything goes and plays the entire country to paint colors.

In Holi celebrates the arrival of spring and swallowed 'bhang', a drink made from the leaves of marijuana which tradition is a gift of god Shiva himself.

His celebration included the spread of water color painting and crowds. It is essentially a Hindu ritual of renewal, so also it is celebrated in the Hindu communities alone worldwide. It made ??the night the first full moon appears March and the following day in India, Bangladesh and Nepal, mainly.
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The following video shows a series of great pictures of this colorful celebration.

It was in 1828 when a British army officer stationed in India came to Darjeeling, and far from home as was seen in those inaccessible lands a reflection of his beloved England.

Determined to make this place a beautiful colonial city to the rest of the British, it was proposed to build a railway to cover the 53 km from New Jalpaiguri and save the difference of more than 2000 km.

So huge slope forced to perform a complex path loops and zigzags with a particularly close way to climb the steep slopes of the Himalayas.

This little blue train made a handful of cars and an old locomotive was named a World Heritage Site in 1999 by UNESCO, through its contribution to the spirit of the place and the iconic journey that takes.