This unique festival celebrates Norse culture with a mix of fire-based activities that provide both entertainment and education. Let’s take a closer look at this incredible event.

The Up Helly Aa Fire Festival in Shetland is unlike anything you’ll experience back home.

What better way to push back against a long, cold winter?

The Dancing Fire Professional Fire Breathers, Fire Blowers, fire spitters, and fire dragons have performed around the world at corporate events, festivals, night clubs, and private events. Our fire breathers have years of experience and skills in fire dragon, sustains, extended breaths, and mushroom clouds.

SCOTLAND has the best winter fire festivals in the UK – and some might say in the world.

While I was preoccupied with the past history of the Vikings, the Shetland Isles in northern Scotland were busy celebrating their own connection and Viking heritage! Shetland’s annual Up Hell…

The iconic masks worn by the Baining people are made from bamboo, leaves, grass, bark and cloth and used only once before they’re burned or discarded. The fire dance itself is traditionally performed by young men as an initiation into adulthood; women and children were long forbidden from watching. Dances are also performed to celebrate childbirth, in remembrance of the dead, and to celebrate the coming of the annual harvest. Today, visitors to PNG are invited to watch the Baining fire…

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SCOTLAND has the best winter fire festivals in the UK – and some might say in the world.