This picture was taken during La Tomatina festival held in past two years at Valencian town of Bunol. This festival held every last Wednesday of August annually. All people around the world will come to Spain just to join this festival.
How this place can come out with such a festival ? Most famous question come out from every tourist who come to this place for the first time. I'm still didn't get any idea the purpose of this festival until i found this article.
All of this started when there were young boys spent their time to attend the parade and they want a place for them at that parade. Their energy during that time made one participant fell off at the place that near with market stall that sell vegetables. After that, people started to pelt each other with the tomatoes.
From that moment, this kind of war be a tradition among people at Bunol even police at that time didn't allowed them. In a year 1957, they started to call musician and so on. Police allowed them but came along with the rules that they need to follow. Year by year, there's lot of modification that had been made by people themselves.
The festival will begin at 10 a.m with "palo jabon" or called as greasy pole. People need to climb a grease pole with a ham on top.
When a person able to drop off the pole, it means the tomato fight will begin. The fight will begin after there is about 11 when a loud shout rings out. The trucks will bring in all the tomatoes. For the participant, it is recommend to wear goggles and gloves because all those tomatoes can give injury for them. After one hour, there will be announcement to end the festival. The road will turn into red because of tomatoes. 'Fire truck' hose will come in and people use the hose to remove the tomato from their body.
