For the Chinese New Year they have a huge festival called the Lantern Festival in downtown Nagasaki's China Town. Nagasaki is a little more then an hour away from Sasebo if you drive the expressways (freeway). The streets were very beautiful and lit up nice and bright with hundreds of lanterns. They also had a stage area where we watched a dragon dance and where they had very large lanterns in different shapes. The biggest one was the dragon lantern because it is now the year of the dragon! Here are a few of our photos from the very very cold night.
It was so cold that it started snowing on us!
Another thing that the lantern festival is known for is the amazing street food! Russell was all about that and wanted to try everything. In this photo he is waiting for a steam bun meat sandwich and warming his hands over the steam.
This one was my favorite, but I had this hilarious photo of Russ eating it so this one won. It's a sweet sesame bread on the outside and it had a black sesame filling on the inside. Despise it's looks, was very tasty.
I love the lantern festival! Do they have those thru out the year?
ReplyDeleteNo, only for the Chinese new year. Although, I do hear the China town in fun to see normally all year round.
ReplyDeleteI cant help it, I keep coming back to look at these pictures. Maybe we should come visit in Jan one year!
ReplyDeleteIt is a pretty spactacular event, but this is the only cool thing going on in Januray. At the moment the sceanery is not nearly as beautiful and it's freezing out, I would say at least wait for spring, summer or fall! Anytime but now would be the best :)
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