Berikaoba: Georgia's CRAZIEST Festival 🇬🇪 (Our Faces COVERED in Mud!) Ancient Pagan Spring Tradition
Join us as we experience the fun and chaos of Berikaoba, Georgia's ancient festival that welcomes in the spring with mud, masks and whips 🇬🇪
In this episode of our van travel series we head to Didi Chailuri in the Kakheti region of Northern Georgian, where the unique cultural tradition that is Berikaoba festival takes place once a year. This pagan fertility festival celebrates the arrival of spring with the berikas, costumed local men and folk theatre performers, setting out to cause mischief in the village. They run around cracking whips, smearing mud and taking gifts from the villagers in return for the promise of a prosperous year. We get involved in this unique cultural practice and get covered head to toe in mud!
The festival also features Chidaoba, an ancient form of wrestling that is unique to Georgia, inscribed on the UNESCO list of Intangible Cultural Heritage, and a village-wide supra feast.
Come and join in the laughs with this Georgia travel documentary vlog about a lesser-known cultural tradition in this Caucasus country.
Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:59 Looking for the festival
00:03:30 Berikaoba begins!
00:05:34 History of Berikaoba
00:07:34 Bestowing gifts (and chickens)
00:08:29 Mud, mud and more mud
00:10:25 A unique ancient tradition
00:11:34 Hitchhiker
00:12:57 Chidaoba (Georgian wrestling)
00:15:36 Village-wide supra feast
00:17:17 Summary
00:22:05 Next time
00:22:33 Outtakes
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Thanks for watching! We hope you laugh as much watching this as we did making it, honestly one of the crazier experiences we've had along our travels 🤪 Please remember to like, share & comment if you enjoyed the video (and help us beat those pesky algorithms that stop our videos being seen)! If you're interested to find out more about Berikaoba, we've uploaded our photographs from the festival to our website along with a blog post- we'd love it if you'd check it out! 👉👉 www.fromrusttoroadtrip.com/blog/berikaoba P.S. The more keen-eyed of you will realise that we promised an epic off-roading adventure in this video as well, but we decided to split them in two to give in topic equal focus, so our off-roading adventure will feature in next week's video! Early access will be available to Patrons 😉
Really good filming and so comical!
@FromRustToRoadtrip
Жыл бұрын
Thank you pleased you liked it!
You're very good video maskera, not only technically... the trick is to find content, and it's 110% Fantastic! Regards Rickard from Sweden 🇸🇪🤠🎸🚐
@FromRustToRoadtrip
Жыл бұрын
Oh thanks so much! That’s really kind of you to say 😄 Finding interesting subjects is one of the hardest things, we just pursue things that we’re curious about and hope that others will find them interesting too! ☺️
This made me laugh so much 😂
@FromRustToRoadtrip
Жыл бұрын
Haha thanks for putting us onto it! Such great fun 😄
You've really captured the Comedy of the whole affair, with Ben running with Cam in hand - U 2 should get your slot on 'Live at the Appollo' ! 😁😄😄🤗 Nothin like a Good Mud Pie in the face :)
Absolutely mental! I love it!!
@FromRustToRoadtrip
Жыл бұрын
😂 So glad you enjoyed!
Thank you for this amazing video, it was hilarious and very informative at the same time! Really cool to see Georgia from your perspective and already looking forward to seeing the next video 😊
@FromRustToRoadtrip
Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much! That’s really great to hear 😄 Can’t wait to share the next one!
Wonderful and fun video! You two are the best! 🚐
@FromRustToRoadtrip
Жыл бұрын
Thank you 🙏
really enjoyed the last 2 videos theyve all been good , great filming great music fascinating people. thank you .
@FromRustToRoadtrip
Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much! So glad you enjoyed them 😄
Loved it! Now I have something else to research!
@FromRustToRoadtrip
Жыл бұрын
😁😁
Brilliant 😂😂😂
Que divertido 🎉😂 !! Cuanta alegría junta y todos participando sin importar la edad. Aún me estoy riendo y participando de la fiesta de la a Primavera 🌻🪻☘️🌹💐❤
@FromRustToRoadtrip
Жыл бұрын
A wonderful way to involve all the generations for sure! So much fun 😄
It looks like a Monty Python sketch.
@FromRustToRoadtrip
Жыл бұрын
I get that 😂
@cornishhh
Жыл бұрын
@@FromRustToRoadtrip Especially the one who got in your van. He reminded me of a koala. I've just had to watch him again. These videos are wonderful. Many thanks for them!
@FromRustToRoadtrip
Жыл бұрын
😂 He was particularly good! Glad you enjoyed 😄
Hi Rust, Ive added some more verses to your FRTR Poem with a mensh for Supra and your Tamada host Holly. It should go live tonight as Update 7. If you want to see the update - Usual just let me know and I'll arrange a free access day. Cheers, @wild_poetrys 😍👌
@hollytaylor3998
Жыл бұрын
I am intrigued!
@MikeCCO
Жыл бұрын
@@hollytaylor3998 You do get a quick mention - I'm afraid not enuf to go up in lights tho' 🤔🥰
@FromRustToRoadtrip
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Mike, we have a kindle subscription now, so we’ll take a look later when we’ve stopped driving for the day. Cheers 🍻
@MikeCCO
Жыл бұрын
@@FromRustToRoadtrip There maybe more to follow. Ive started writing some verses on your latest Berikaoba stint. It may take a week or 2 as quite busy at the moment slotting it in.. I'll make that Upload 8 when ready and let you know when its live - now that you can check it out yourselves
@MikeCCO
Жыл бұрын
@@hollytaylor3998 Hi Holly, the update is now live for the Poem From Rust to Road Trip which has the mention of you as the Tamada in it. If you do want to have a read then I can arrange a Free day for you to download it. Just let me know with a bit of notice what day suits you. Cheers, Mike