Yes, there’s snakes galore! It’s the Year of the Snake, and snakes feature highly in the Lantern Festival events being held all over Taiwan in recent weeks. There are snake lanterns of every shape and size, and of every description, … Continue reading 🏮It’s Lantern Festival Time! 🐍
Exactly 2 weeks after Chinese (Lunar) New Year comes the Lantern Festival ~ so Saturday February 24 was the day! Every city in Taiwan puts on its own Lantern Festival, but the main Taiwan Lantern Festival is hosted by a … Continue reading Dragons & More Dragons @ The Lantern Festival! 🐉
Yes, red is the colour as always for Chinese New Year (aka Lunar New Year or Spring Festival) and this year is no exception. And gold too. Oh yes, red and gold are everywhere! The Year of the Dragon is coming, … Continue reading Red is the Colour, it’s Chinese New Year!
The Taiwan Lantern Festival meets Covid-19…..! It’s the final weekend of this huge extravaganza, Taiwan’s annual Lantern Festival with lanterns, light shows and huge crowds of people everywhere ~ and in the midst of them all there’s a few lanterns … Continue reading Happy Lantern Festival! 🏮
Escaping from Taipei’s endless rain and cold, and in search of some sun, warmth and blue skies, so we just spent this past week driving down Taiwan’s east coast. Beautiful! Yes, sun, warmth and blue skies, all so much appreciated. … Continue reading Roaring Down Taiwan’s East Coast in the Year of the Tiger! 🐯
So many many people, all there to enjoy the Lantern Festival, and, ah yes, it was great! The end of Chinese New Year celebrations is marked by the Lantern Festival, and in Taiwan, each local government organizes an event that … Continue reading 人山人海 ‘People Mountain, People Sea’ and fun at the Taiwan Lantern Festival 台灣燈會 @ Pingtung 屏東 Dapeng Bay大鵬灣 !
A major extravaganza is on down in Taiwan’s south central city of Chiayi. If you get a chance, GO! Every year, a different city or county is chosen to host Taiwan’s main lantern festival, and every year, thousands and thousands flock there from all over the country to attend. Including me. I love to go! This year it is the turn of Chiayi. And what an extravaganza it is! Last year, the Year of the Rooster, the main lantern festival was held in Yunlin. The year before, the Year of the Monkey, it was held in Taoyuan. Both of those … Continue reading Happy Year of the Dog ~ Taiwan’s Lantern Festival 2018 @ Chiayi!
Every city needs some colour, especially if the city concerned is famous for being a city nobody wants to visit. Or live in. Or work in. Kaohsiung is exactly that city. It may be the southern capital of Taiwan and a … Continue reading Transformation by Colour @ Kaohsiung 高雄 Street Art ~ and more!
A few photos from Taiwan’s Lantern Festival, held over the last 8 days or so in Yunlin ~ me and my good friend Ah-Guan went on Saturday night! What a masterpiece of organization by the local government ~ with a steady stream of free coaches transporting thousands of us from Douliu Train Station to the main site at Huwei, with a special designated lane on the main road so the hundreds of coaches had a clear run. Police, workers and volunteers by the thousand to keep us all on the straight and narrow. And free food and all sorts of … Continue reading Happy Year of the Rooster ~ Taiwan’s Lantern Festival 2017 @ Yunlin!
Catherine Lee 