During the fast they do not eat nor drink between sunrise and sunset. But early in the morning and in the evening they are allowed to eat. Fasting is supposed to encourage good thoughts and kind acts. On the day of Eid, special foods are prepared and the people feast with their friends and neighbours. Muslims who can afford it try to make a pilgrimage to Mecca, their holy city, at least once during their lifetime.
Mecca lies on the Red Sea.
There Muslims pray and offer sacrifices in memory of the sacrifice of Ishmael. God had asked Abraham to offer his son Ishmael as a sacrifice, to show is devotion to God. Although Abraham loved his son very much he was prepared to do as God asked. Just as he was about to kill his son, God stopped him and told him , that he was an obedient servant. In place of the boy God gave Abraham a ram to scarifice instead.