Colors of San Diego - traditions, festivals, mentality and lifestyle

Annually the city of San Diego hosts numerous bright and remarkable festivals and ethnic holidays. One of the brightest and most wanted country holidays is the San Diego Beer Week which is held in the middle of September. The brightest folk festival is accompanied with various engaging gastronomy events, competitions and contests. The festival offers exciting entertainment program. Guests of the festival can mix business with pleasure enjoying favorite sorts of beer and visiting exciting music concerts and shows, themed tours and street performances. Every year the program of the beer festival is added and expanded with greatest events and entertainments.

Various charity events are held within the festival as well. Costs collected during the festival are then given to children’s funds and medical charitable organizations. It should be noted that most local residents consider taking part in charity events their duty. This feature of local culture is rather contagious for foreign guests of the city taking part in various charity events on par with locals.

Another local event of global recognition is the Comic-Con International. During the holiday the streets of the city turn into a scale movie location and shooting area. Within the festival Hollywood celebrities perform new films, one can meet people wearing costumes of favorite movie heroes at every turn. The Comic-Con International festival held in 1970. Since that time the event has gained the greatest scale attracting tourists from all over the world. Annually the festival is attended by more than 150 thousands of tourists. Copyright www.orangesmile.com

For many people the festival is the only chance to meet their movie idols and heroes in reality. Close to a large conference hall of the city thousands of fans are watching Hollywood stars and waiting for a chance to meet their superheroes. During the festival special stalls appear in the streets of the city in which one can buy bright comics, magazines and other print media anyway related to cinema industry.

However one of the most waited event among the guests of the festival is bright parades and marches which are running through central streets of the city. Favorite heroes of movies, comics and cartoons can be met everywhere, city guests clad in costumes of their favorite heroes are proudly walking along the streets of San Diego boasting their festive stuff in public. One of the most exciting traditions of the festival is a twin contest. Many fans of the festival are twin like their heroes. The bright festival of Comic-Con International is a perfect chance to have a good time and to get a charge of positive impressions.