Where in the world should I go in the first two weeks of Oct. 2018?

May 3, 2018 5:11 PM

My best friend lives in China. I live in North America. We try to get together every couple years for about a week. His work schedule means that early October is usually best. We're both seasoned travellers and we like to meet up somewhere we've never been before. I have ideas of where I'd like to go, but I want to go somewhere different where something unique might be happening. Where is that?

Where in the world is something interesting happening at the beginning of October 2018? Maybe an interesting festival, a sporting event, a concert, anything that we can anchor a trip around. Something that I'd look back upon when I'm an old man and think how glad I was that I got to experience that cool event once.

posted by fso to Travel & Transportation (7 answers total)

Maybe the human tower festival in Catalonia (concursdecastells.cat) or the hot air balloon festival in New Mexico (balloonfiesta.com)?
posted by pinochiette at 5:30 PM on May 3, 2018 [1 favorite]

Oktoberfest in Munich ends 7th Oct.
posted by sunflower16 at 5:40 PM on May 3, 2018 [2 favorites]

On October 22 in Kyoto, during the day there's Jidai Matsuri/Festival of the Ages and at night in nearby Kurama, the Kurama Fire Festival.
posted by ShooBoo at 6:08 PM on May 3, 2018

Do you like to fish?
posted by vrakatar at 6:11 PM on May 3, 2018

This list should fit the bill. Or just pick a bunch of places you're interested in already and look up holidays/festivals and see if there's overlap?
posted by perrouno at 8:35 PM on May 3, 2018

Best answer: October is prime trekking season in Nepal. With a week, you could do one of the shorter treks. It’s also the time of year for Dashain, one of Nepal’s biggest festivals. I haven’t been there for it, but Nepalis know how to throw a great festival.
posted by lunasol at 10:08 PM on May 3, 2018

I literally just finished binge reading about Oman! I say Oman.
posted by floweredfish at 8:47 AM on May 4, 2018 [1 favorite]