The American SandSculpting Championship Festival

American SandSculpting Championship & Beach Festival was held on Fort Myers Beach in Florida from November 2 through 6. The competition is always divided into two areas, amateurs and masters. The end result is a display of the very elaborate sand sculptures. Fort Myers Beach was a home to the 2011 World Championship of Sand Sculpting that brought in at least 60 international artists. “It’s the Super Bowl of sand sculpting.” Fort Myers Beach is known for world class sand.

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The International Sand Sculpture Festival held annually in Pera, Portugal, is the largest sand sculpture event in the world. 

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Rabechilbi Turnip Festival

Rabechilbi Turnip Festival celebrates the end of harvest with turnips in Richterswil, a small town on Lake Zurich in Switzerland, on the second Saturday in November. It is the largest turnip festival in Europe. Before the festival, people of all ages including kids make tones of turnip lanterns with candles inside them. Then on Saturday night all the lights in the village get turned off and the only light comes from candles. The windows, balconies, and stairways of every house are lined with lighted turnip lanterns, turning the whole town into a magical place. During the festival at night, there is a spectacular parade of glittering floats made from thousand of candles and carved root vegetables of different shapes and sizes including famous people, animals, plants, and temples. The festival was entered into the Guinness Book of Records for world-breaking statistics with its number of beautifully carved turnips.