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Travel Light: September 2003 Festivals & Events By Alissa Mears
San Francisco World Music Festival, California Artists from all over the globe converge on the Bay Area for a week of city-wide festivities. Festival Web site GORP's San Fran guide (September 5) Gauley River Season Opener, West Virginia Let the rapids begin as the Summersville Dam's floodgates open and the Gauley River, the Beast of the East, gets its teeth with class III to V+ whitewater. West Virginia Tourism Wildwater Expeditions GORP's Gauley guide
Wildlife Viewing, Masai Mara Park, Kenya Between July and October, one and a half million wildebeest, accompanied by vast herds of zebra and gazelle, make the journey from Tanzania northward to the lusher pastures of Kenya. By mid-September, most of the animals have amassed for the world's most spectacular wildlife pageant in the Masai Mara. In the park, Governors' Camps are placed to afford travelers the best views of the migration. "Zebras: Born to Roam" (from the September 2003 issue of National Geographic) Away.com's Kenya guide (September 18-21) Singapore Orchid Festival The Singapore Botanic Gardens will be transformed into a showcase for Asia's most illustrious orchids. Official festival Web site (September 19-October 5) Oktoberfest, Munich, Germany Oktoberfest, the Bavarian drinking fest, originated in a meadow in 1810 as a party to bless the union of Princess Therese and Crown Prince Ludwig. Today six million visitors invade the Munich bierhalles to partake in a 16-day bacchanal of beer, bratwurst, and babel. GORP's Bavarian guide (September 20) Henley-On-Todd Regatta, Alice Springs, Australia A parody of the serious rowing face-off between Oxford and Cambridge Universities on the Thames River, the Henley-On-Todd is the Aussie version: racers carry bottomless boats on a run through the long dried-out Todd River.
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