Category: Gallery
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Nagasaki Chinese Lantern Festival
Nagasaki City, in Kyushu Japan, celebrates The Lantern Festival every Chinese New Year.
This year, the Year of the Rooster, celebrated on January 28,2016, marks the opening of the two-week Chinese Lantern Festival in Nagasaki.
Below are some of the photos I took. Yes, its only a few because I take a lot of photos like crazy. Blame it to the aspiring photographer in me. Or maybe I just love festivals.
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The lanterns in Chinatown
The place was filled with people. You can feel the festive mood.
One of the giant lanterns that lit up the city.
Another giant lantern.
This year’s animal.
People climbing up the stairs to the shrine to pray.
Lanterns in close up.
The altar where a great crowd of people wanted to see (pray?).
The dragon – symbol of Chinatown.
The tallest lantern-the Rooster.
The Megane Bashi. Megane is eyeglasses in Japanese. The bridge looks like an eyeglasses if seen from afar. The two arches with its reflection on the water look like eyeglasses.
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Rose Festival in Huis Ten Bosch
Rose and festival – two completely different words but are both related to love, happiness and celebration. Just imagine these two words being used together. It is indisputably pleasurable experience.
The Location
Huis Ten Bosch is a Dutch-inspired theme park in Nagasaki. It is a huge park where the buildings and surroundings would make you feel you are in Europe, but in fact you are in the island of Kyushu, Japan. Here is the location: 1-1 Huis Ten Bosch Machi, Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture 859-3292
You can do so many fun things in this park, but here I will talk primarily about the theme park’s Rose Festival occurring in spring(around May to June).
All About Roses
One of the grandest flower celebrations in Huis Ten Bosch in Nagasaki is the Rose Festival. By the name itself, rose fanatics will certainly go crazy about it. The park boasts of its one thousand varieties of rose which blooms in full during this event. There you will see that roses are not just red. There are so many different shades of colors. There are shades of red, pink, purple, yellow, orange. A blast of colors everywhere. Also you will see roses in different sizes and forms. Big, small, tiny. There are even single-petalled roses.The kinds or roses that you may have never seen before. It’s absolutely amazing!
My Experience
I can still remember even now how unexplainable the feeling was when I first experienced it four years ago. It was like heaven on earth. I was surrounded with roses. Everywhere I turned, there were roses. I smelled the air, smiled and said ‘cheese’ to my camera. And almost everyone who was there was doing the same. The sweet smell of the air was so amazingly pleasant. It was like I was in a fragrance commercial tipping my head back smelling the air. It was ecstasy! That spot where roses of all colors and all sizes bloom is more than a ‘bed’ of roses. It was a ‘world’ of roses.
Conclusion
