Lantern Festival - HsinChu

The Taiwan National Government also puts on a Lantern Festival that rotates between the big cities around the island. This year the festival was held in HsinChu, our old home in the 1990's. HsinChu is an hour or 2 drive from Taipei. The National Government subsidized buses to take citizens from around the island to spend the day in HsinChu.

 Promoting tourism is what every country is doing nowadays as it is an ecological way to bring in foreign money. Taiwan is an increasingly easy place to visit, the people are friendly and the sites and food are different from the West.

We arrived in HsinChu in the day time, although all of the displays used LED lights, it was fun to see the displays before it got dark. There were lots of old friends. Like Sponge Bob.

Totoro

Snakes with Angry Bird

And some more realistic looking snakes

Again some of the displays used recycled materials.

But the big difference from the Taipei snake display was more frightening.

But at night it looked differently.

And the Oscar goes to: