Saturday, March 10, 2007

architecture at the Lantern Festival

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The two weeks that follow Chinese New Year are to celebrate the "Lantern Festival."

Along Love River in downtown Kaohsiung homemade lanterns are on display. 

Most of the lanterns, made by shool children, were either pigs (remember it's year of the pig) or about the 2009 World Games to be held here in Kaohsiung, but a few of the lanterns on display were famous buildings in Taiwan.

Here is a pig with the 85-story building in Kaohsiung (Yes, it does appear to be that the building and the pig are in a bathtub.  I have no idea why).

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Here is a Taipei 101 lantern.  Taipei 101 is the world's tallest building.

taipei 101 lantern

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Mar 10, 2007 8:38:00 AM | bloginess, culture, life in taiwan, my photos, photohunt

7 Comments

Tanya

WOW! Great pics of CNY. I keep going away for CNY in Hong Kong...so I miss all the colours and lights.


I played too. http:/photogfrog.livejournal.com

Posted by: Tanya | Saturday, March 10, 2007 at 04:46 PM

eija

Hehe, a funny piggie :D At first I had trouble noticing the "building" next to it... But in a bath tub??? Funny...

Posted by: eija | Sunday, March 11, 2007 at 02:09 AM

Imma (Alice)

Very interesting take on Architecture. My first Photo Hunters post is up.

Posted by: Imma (Alice) | Sunday, March 11, 2007 at 05:21 AM

Pastormac's Ann

These are great. I'm really enjoying the theme this week - so many kinds of architecture. Fun.

Posted by: Pastormac's Ann | Sunday, March 11, 2007 at 11:42 AM

meeyauw

That looks like fun! It's hard to believe that there is a building that tall: 101 stories? Scary!

Posted by: meeyauw | Sunday, March 11, 2007 at 12:05 PM

Amy

How neat are those pictures?

Posted by: Amy | Sunday, March 11, 2007 at 11:36 PM

amanda

Thanks fellow hunters for leaving comments.

Posted by: amanda | Friday, March 16, 2007 at 07:50 AM

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