Freitag, 22. Februar 2008

Olympic mascots, eggplants, dragons and more






Lantern festival


Today when it was dark we visited the lantern festival in Hua Da Guan Yuan, the World Flower Park of Beijing.

Inside the greenhouse flowers, trees and grass were arranged to build sculptures with themes like the olympics or luck for the new year.

Outside in the park (with a cold wind blowing through the park) were lanterns / light sculpures.

Except us mainly Chinese families with small children visited the park because for children this is a very nice experience.

The lanterns represented flowers, vegetables like eggplant or pumpkin, rats (because it now is the year of the rat) or other animals.

Just have a look at the photos to have an impression yourself.

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