The running of the bulls in Pamplona always makes the news as the craziest and most dangerous festival in the world. However, the Yenshui Firework Festival in Taiwan has to run it close. In short, fireworks are packed into lorries and then fired into the crowd who have to stand and face them until finished. The crowd simply protects themselves with hats and thick coats while being hit at point blank range for several minutes by a non-stop barrage of fireworks.
I am still a little deaf.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C9n2rbRXLE
edu.ocac.gov.tw/local/web/Eng/Content.aspx?Class=1&Para=8
Dan chapman blogs about living in Taiwan at
www.betelnut-equation.blogspot.com