Thursday, May 24, 2012

Mid-Autumn Festival 2011

Posted by noelbynature

The Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival was earlier this week on September 12. Chinatown is usually the best place to observe the festivities, but it’s not the only place – do you know where this place is?

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James blog about the Mid-Autumn festivities at Bugis:

Since I cannot be present at so many places at one time due to time constraints, I decided to visit the Bugis Square to soak in the atmosphere of the Mid-Autumn Festival and shopping at the roadside stalls near Kuan Imm Temple at Waterloo Street this year. This is the open-air public space where cultural events all-year round located across the road of Bugis Junction. There are activities and road-side stalls and buskers which attracted crowds of locals and popular among tourists.

With a throng of the crowd just a week from the Mid-Autumn Day, there were many tourists from various countries, such as Americans, Australians, Vietnamese, Indonesians, Malaysians and also a couple of curious Africans who found the celebration interesting and never seen before in their home country.

Read the full post here.

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