Cultural Festivities in Asia

Vibrant scenes of traditional dress and dance during religious festivals across Southeast Asia, showcasing colorful attire and cultural celebrations.

Asia, South Korea, Seoul, Deoksugung Palace, changing of the guards ceremony

Spectators in traditional dress at the largest and most important religious festival of the Cham, Po Nagar Temple, Vietnam, Southeast Asia

Asia, South Korea, Seoul, Deoksugung Palace, changing of the guards ceremony

Monks dancing during a celebration, Lo Manthang, Nepal.

Dancers performing in the Paro Festival, Bhutan.

Bhutan, Punakha Dzong. Punakha Drubchen Festival, masked dancers. (Editorial Use Only)

Kalash, Pakistan - 24 December 2025: View of women adorned in traditional Kalash headdresses and vibrant orange shawls, their intricate beadwork shimmering in the soft light.

Asia, Bhutan, Haa Tshechu. Dance of the Furies.

Asia, Bhutan, Thimphu, Autumn Tsechu festival at Trashi Chhoe Dzong

Mask dancers, Hemis Festival, Hemis Monastery, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India, Asia

Asia, Bhutan, Thimphu, Autumn Tsechu festival at Trashi Chhoe Dzong

Dancer performing in the Paro Festival, Bhutan.

Shillong, Meghalaya, circa April 2012: Young girls wear traditional colourful costumes with large necklaces during Shad Suk Mynsiem Festival in Shillong, Meghalaya. Documentary editorial

Young woman during a performance with a parasol, Flower Festival, Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand, Asia

Mask dancing enacting tales of Buddhist legend during a festival in Bhutan

Thimphu, Bhutan - 28 September 2025: View of vibrant dancers leaping in the Dromchoe festival, their elaborate costumes a swirling kaleidoscope against the muted backdrop of the seated crowd.

Thimphu, Bhutan - 28 September 2025: View of dancers in vibrant costumes and masks, a sea of faces behind them, celebrating the rich cultural heritage at Thimphu Dromchoe festival.

Thailand: During the annual Vegetarian Festival in Phuket Town, which features various forms of often gruesome self-punishment, a so-called Mah Song or spirit medium sports a short steel rod through her cheek. The Vegetarian Festival is a religious festival annually held on the island of Phuket in southern Thailand. It attracts crowds of spectators because of many of the unusual religious rituals that are performed.

Kohima, India. 9 December 2022. Members of the Naga community participate during the Hornbill Festival, at Kisama village near Kohima, on December 9, 2022 in Kohima, India. The Hornbill Festival is an annual festival celebrated from 1 to 10 of December in the Northeastern Indian state of Nagaland to represents all ethnic groups of Nagaland

LEH, INDIA - SEPTEMBER 08, 2012: Dancers in traditional Ladakhi Tibetan costumes perform warlike dance at the Annual Festival of Ladakh Heritage in Leh, India. September 08, 2012

Thimphu, Bhutan - 28 September 2025: View of vibrant costumes and fierce masks swirling in a blur of color against the backdrop of the Thimphu Dromchoe festival.

Folk group Edmonton, Ukrainian dancers Viter from Canada during the 48th International Folklore Festival in center of Zagreb

Tibetans dressed for religious shaman´s ceremony, Tongren, Qinghai Province, China, Asia

Indonesia, Bali, Barong

China, Guizhou Province, Sugao village, Long Horn Miao lunar new year festival

Monks, Hemis Festival, Hemis Monastery, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India, Asia

Hemis festival celebration at Hemis Gompa, Hemis, Leh, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India Copyright: xJatinxAcharya/DinodiaxPhotox

Ecuador, Cuenca. Dancers in folklore troupe during annual parade and festival to celebrate founding of Cuenca in 1557. Cuenca is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

China, Guizhou Province, Sugao village, Long Horn Miao lunar new year festival

Thailand. Bangkok. Thai Stick Dancing.

Parade carrying float celebrating Tenji Matsuri Festival, Osaka, Japan (Large format sizes available)

Procession to the shrine festival Matsuri with girls and mothers in kimonos, behind the torii, shrine gate, Kintano Tenmango Shrine, Kyoto, Japan, Asia

A dancer performs a traditional religious dance in Bhutan's Thimpbu.

Pentecostes Festival held annually in May, Ollantaytambo, Peru. (Editorial Usage Only)

INDONESIA, BALI, BARONG DANCE, GIRL DANCERS, REPRESENTING THE SERVANTS OF THE RANGDA

Masked dancer tames demons & negativity

Japan, Tokyo, Jidai Matsuri, festival,

Monks dance with ribbons representing deity powers at the Monlam Chenmo, Katok Monastery - Kham, (Tibet), Sichuan, China

Colourfully dressed monks watching the opening ceremony of the Hemis Festival, Hemis, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India, Asia

Thimphu, Bhutan - 28 September 2025: View of dancers swirl in vibrant costumes, their intricate patterns a blur against the backdrop of traditional architecture.

LEH, INDIA, SEPTEMBER 08, 2012: Young dancers in traditional Ladakhi Tibetan costumes perform folk dance at the Annual Festival of Ladakh Heritage in Leh, India. September 08, 2012

Indonesian men in masks taking part in a carnival celebrating Malang's 101st year anniversary, Malang, East Java, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

Nyingma monk with damaru drum & bell at the Cham dances, Katok Dorjeden Monastery - Kham, (Tibet), Sichuan Province, China

Masked dancer with skulls representing impermanence at the Cham dances, Katok Monastery - Kham, (Tibet), Sichuan, China

Dancer performing in traditional Paro festival, Paro, Bhutan

Das 31. Internationale Maskenfest Surva in Pernik, Bulgarien Pernik, Bulgaria - January 24, 2025: The 31th International masquerade festival Surva in Pernik, Bulgaria. People with mask called Kukeri dance and perform to scare the evil spirits. Copyright: xZoonar.com/GeorgixDimitrovx 22814020

Performers at the conclusion of a Kejak Dance, Bali, 1998.

Dancers perform Ging dang Tsoling, the Dance of Ging and the Tsholing outside Punakha Dzong. The dance is believed to have been first performed by Guru Rinpoche at the Samye Monastery in Tibet in the eighth century.

Kamalabari Main Town, Shiri Shiri Uttar Kamalabari Satra, Hindu, Vaishnev, monastery, Majuli Island, Assam State, northeast India, Raas Dance, Krishna, Gayan Bayan.

Chiang Mai is known as 'the Rose of the North', but it really blooms into flower in February, towards the end of the cool season. Every year on the first weekend of February, the Chiang Mai Flower Festival is opened. The flower beds in public spaces all around the town are especially beautiful at this time of year. Everywhere there can be found gorgeous displays of yellow and white chrysanthemums, and the Damask Rose, a variety found only in Chiang Mai. Also, the pink and purplish Dendrobium orchids, and the yellow Daoruang. The real focus of this Chiang Mai festival, however, is the public garden of Suan Buak Haad on the south-western corner of the moat. The road next to the moat all around the park is closed to traffic, and vendors of plants, Thailand flowers, Thailand orchids and garden decorations set up their stalls there.

Barong and Kris Dance, traditional Balinese dance, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, Asia

Mask dancers, Hemis Festival, Hemis Monastery, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India, Asia

Meskel ceremony in Lalibela, Ethiopia

Kandyan dancers in traditional attire participate in the Kandy Day Perahera, which concludes ten days of pageant with a magnificent procession through the city's streets, Sri Lanka

UBUD, BALI, INDONESIA - March 2023 - traditional Balinese show in the centre of Ubud, Bali, Indonesia

Costumed dancers at religious festivity with many visitors, Paro Tsechu, Bhutan

Portugal, Tomar, girls carrying the Tabuleiros in the procession are decorated with symbols of the Holy Spirit

Palace guards in trance, turning on themselves by screaming and stabbing their chests fiercely with their kris daggers at the end of the traditional Barong and Kris dance, which tells a battle between good and evil spirit, performed in Batubulan, Bali Indonesia.

Phuoc Long Buddhist pagoda. Buddhist ceremony. Young dancers. Tan Chau. Vietnam.

Masked dancers tame demons & negativity at the Monlam Chenpo, Katok Dorjeden Monastery - Kham, (Tibet), Sichuan, China

Thailand: During the annual Vegetarian Festival in Phuket Town, a Mah Song or spirit medium carries two umbrellas, the handles pierced through his cheeks. The Vegetarian Festival is a religious festival annually held on the island of Phuket in southern Thailand. It attracts crowds of spectators because of many of the unusual religious rituals that are performed.

Thailand: During the annual Vegetarian Festival in Phuket Town, a Mah Song or spirit medium carries two umbrellas, the handles pierced through his cheeks. The Vegetarian Festival is a religious festival annually held on the island of Phuket in southern Thailand. It attracts crowds of spectators because of many of the unusual religious rituals that are performed.

Toba Batak people at the funeral of an important woman near Tuk Tuk, Samosir Island, Lake Toba, Sumatra, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

Malay male dancer wearing traditional dress at celebrations of Kuala Lumpur City Day Commemoration, Merdeka Square, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Southeast ...

Mask dancers, Hemis Festival, Hemis Monastery, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India, Asia

Authentic peruvian dance in Titicaca region

LEH, INDIA, SEPTEMBER 08, 2012: Dancers in traditional Ladakhi Tibetan costumes perform warlike dance at the Annual Festival of Ladakh Heritage in Leh, India. September 08, 2012

Tibet, Kham, Tagong. Tibetan nomad celebration at Buddhist flower festival. (Editorial Use Only)

Japan, Kumano Hongu Taisha, annual festival, people,

Bali, Indonesia. Portrait of family walking to a religious ceremony carrying a hand-carved wooden altar. (Editorial Use Only)

Children´s procession, La Merced, Good Friday, Semana Santa, Antigua, Guatemala, Central America

Burma/ Myanmar, Golden Triangle. Burmese girls in traditional dress.

Procession, Balinese Galungan, religious ceremony, holiday celebrating return of the spirits of ancestors, Bali-Hinduism, Bali, Indonesia, Asia

Jakar, Bhutan - 24 September 2025: View of monks in vibrant maroon robes gracefully dancing on the polished wooden floor of the Dzong, bathed in soft, diffused light.

CHINA, Yunnan Province, Shilin County. Shilin Stone Forest- Sani Minority People- Sani Fold Dance Performance (NR).

Clergy procession for Meskel celebration. Coptic Christian ceremony. Lalibela. Ethiopia, Africa.

Nepal, Mustang, traditional thangka festival

Participants perform at Dinagyang Festival, Iloilo, Philippines

Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States. Danza de Los Voladores from Patalan, Veracruz, Mexico. This dance is recognized by UNESCO - Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Bali, Indonesia. A local group of musicians practicing music for a festival

Burmese girls dancing, Bagan Golden Palace, Bagan, Myanmar, (Burma)

Cham dance (Mask dance), Leh, Ladakh, India, Asia

Japan, Kyoto City, Aoi Matsuri, Festival, Ladies of the Court Parading

Thailand, Phuket. Thai Village, traditional folkloric show in typical attire, stick dance.

Hindus bringing offerings to Temple in Mas during Koningan Ceremoy, Bali Indonesia

Jakar, Bhutan - 24 September 2025: View of dancers in vibrant masks and costumes emerge from a temple doorway, a burst of color against the temple's ornate wooden frame.

BALI APRIL 2024 - Kecak Dance , Uluwatu Temple, Bali, Indonesia

Kandyan dancers in traditional dress participate in the Kandy Day Perahera, which concludes ten days of pageant with a magnificent procession through the city's streets, Sri Lanka

Balinese women, wearing traditional costumes, at hinduist ceremony

Cebu City, Philippines - 18 January 2026: View of dancers adorned in vibrant costumes, their movements a kaleidoscope of color against the urban backdrop..

Myanmar (Burma), Mandalay State, Popa Mount, Mahagiri sanctuary, detail of the 37 nats (spirits) of the Burmese pantheon, a very popular place of worship in Myanmar

Ama women in traditional clothing swimming in the sea holding torches at night celebrating Shirahama Ama Festival, Minamiboso, Chiba Prefecture, Japan (Large format sizes available)

Children and teenagers of a gamelan orchestra at an event, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, Asia

Long Horn Miao tribe at Lunar New Year festival, Sugao, Guizhou Province, China

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA, October 25, 2014 : The changing of the guard demonstration at Gyeongbokgung Palace on October 25, 2014 in Seoul, South Korea, Asia

Malaysia, Kelantan, Kota Bharu, Rebana Ubi, drums, drummers,

Kohima, India. 9 December 2022. Members of the Naga community participate during the Hornbill Festival, at Kisama village near Kohima, on December 9, 2022 in Kohima, India. The Hornbill Festival is an annual festival celebrated from 1 to 10 of December in the Northeastern Indian state of Nagaland to represents all ethnic groups of Nagaland

Burning incense during Tet, the Vietnamese lunar New Year celebration, Thien Hau Temple, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Thailand: During the annual Vegetarian Festival in Phuket Town, a Mah Song or spirit medium carries two umbrellas, the handles pierced through his cheeks. The Vegetarian Festival is a religious festival annually held on the island of Phuket in southern Thailand. It attracts crowds of spectators because of many of the unusual religious rituals that are performed.

Asia, Japan, Tokyo, Asakusa, Sensoji temple, Hakucho White Swan festival

Nepal, Bhaktapur, Dashain Festival, people, procession,

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