{"id":63222,"date":"2026-07-30T17:55:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/63222\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T17:55:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:55:57","slug":"indian-woman-shares-reality-of-spains-la-tomatina-festival-isnt-as-dreamy-as-instagram-makes-it-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/63222\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian woman shares reality of Spain\u2019s La Tomatina festival: \u2018Isn\u2019t as dreamy as Instagram makes it look\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Indian content creator<\/a> has shared a candid account of attending Spain\u2019s<\/a> La Tomatina festival, saying the iconic event \u201cisn\u2019t as dreamy as Instagram makes it look\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe woman described La Tomatina as \u201cone of the toughest experiences” she has ever had. (Reuters\/Representational image)<\/p>\n

Taking to Instagram, content creator Anali Gupta shared a video after attending the famous tomato-throwing festival in Bu\u00f1ol. She said that the experience was nothing like the glamorous scenes shown in the 2011 Bollywood<\/a> film Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (ZNMD).<\/p>\n

\u201cMain just abhi Tomato Festival se wapas aa rahi hoon. To tumhein kya laga? Maine bahut maze kiye honge? Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara jaisa koi moment? Bilkul bhi nahi. Bilkul bhi nahi,\u201d she said in the video.<\/p>\n

Gupta claimed that the tomatoes used during the festival are often overripe or rotten, resulting in an unpleasant, overwhelming smell. \u201cMain literally vomiting karne hi wali thi. Mere aas-paas ki jo bhi ladkiyan thi na, sab vomiting kar rahi thi,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She also described the crowd as overwhelming and warned that anyone trying to record videos could end up being specifically targeted. She added that many Indians had travelled to the festival expecting a cinematic experience but were too intimidated by the chaos to participate fully. She further said that the only enjoyable part came after the tomato fight had ended, when the crushed tomatoes had turned into a ketchup-like puree on the streets.<\/p>\n

In the caption of the post, Gupta described La Tomatina as \u201cone of the toughest experiences” she has ever had. She said the tomatoes are often rotten, the smell can make people nauseous, and participants throw them with enough force to cause pain. She also noted that, as a woman, she found the pushing and crowding particularly intimidating.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo if you\u2019re planning to attend La Tomatina in Bu\u00f1ol, Spain, don\u2019t expect a perfect ZNMD movie moment. That version exists on screen. Reality is messy, exhausting, and physically demanding,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

Gupta clarified that she was not discouraging people from attending the festival. \u201cI\u2019m not saying don\u2019t go. I\u2019m saying go with the right expectations, prepare yourself mentally, and decide if this is truly the kind of experience you want before spending so much money to get there,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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How did social media react?<\/p>\n

The post received mixed reactions online.<\/p>\n

Reacting to the post, one Instagram user wrote, \u201cThnks for sharing the genuine info.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThanks for the awareness,\u201d commented another.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to prepare by buying Iphone cover, big googles etc. and it\u2019s a fun for few hour. Don\u2019t expect a bollywood movie scene,\u201d wrote a third user.<\/p>\n

However, not everyone agreed with Gupta\u2019s experience.<\/p>\n

One user wrote, \u201cThis is a very different POV of the festival. I was there in 2025 too but my experience was very close to what they showed in the movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI had an amazing experience at tomatina. I was surprised it was as the movie (without the songs, of course). We were really happy. We were not close to the trucks though,\u201d shared another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Indian content creator has shared a candid account of attending Spain\u2019s La Tomatina festival, saying the iconic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25356,10297,25353,17,25355,25354],"class_list":["post-63222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-bunol","tag-festival","tag-la-tomatina","tag-spain","tag-tomatoes","tag-toughest-experiences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}