Lantern Festival - Taipei

The Lantern Festival is held 2 weeks after the Chinese New Year. So the CNY is on a New Moon and the Lantern Festival is on a Full Moon. In the past, it is a time when families went out together with their lanterns and see their neighbors with their lanterns. Nowadays we go out together to see the light shows put on the governments. In Taipei, the light show and festival rotates between the neighborhoods of Taipei. This year's neighborhood was YuanShan which was within walking distance for us. It was also the site of last year's flower expo, so there was plenty of room for the displays.

I thought the LEDs for Christmas, New Years and Chinese New Years were a lot but for the Lantern Festival it was even more.

There were display along miles of walkways.

Many of the displays are bases on geometric designs, it's amazing what can be done with strings of LEDs.

And now the Snake light stage was in full operations.

A closeup picture of the snake shows that is made of recycled plastic bottles. And the snake was spitting out smoke(like a fire breathing dragon).

The cameraman needs some assistance.