A quick few extra fotos from Tanja… Ele in Taipei, during the moon festival (and hey Ele, if you have more photos please send them to me!)
Tag: Festivals
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Moon Festival
Ele in Taipei!
The Moon Festival is one of the biggest annual festivals in Chinese culture. It is a centre-piece of the Lunar Calendar, but mainly seems to involve the entire island making barbecues. The whole place is full of smoke (I am convinced you could see it from Hong Kong) as people cook food in the streets, on the roofs, in the parks … but it is a really nice festival where family comes together.
Full moon … on the roof with my Chinese teacher, a couple of her students, Ele, Tanja and Michael
Barbecue on the balcony
Warp Factor 10
Rebels without a cause
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Fulong Beach Festival
Had a weekend at a music festival on the west of the island. Saw some good music – the best of which was the 5678s – they provided music for Kill Bill.
The funny thing was the beach itself. The Taiwanese are petrified of swimming, and avoid it at all costs. It is not surprising to find life guards that cannot even swim themselves. Therefore, their main job is to keep everyone out of the dangerous, deadly water… except this beach had the safest bathing area I had ever seen. Check out the whistle blowers:
And the incredible danger I am putting myself in here – very deep waters:
This is a photo of us blending in… Markus, Michael, me and Anke:
And finally – an image of a guy just rocking out on the big screens of the concert:
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Walking
Went looking for a flat today and stumbled accross a nice wee temple. I am sure I will be able to find some better photos one day when the light is better.
