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Chainatown Mid-Autumn festival in Singapore, 2013

When: 19th September to 10th October

Where: Singapore

The mid autumn festival bringing a jovial nature and a reason for immense jubilation and more than that celebration to take part in for Chinese in the end of October. The festival is celebrated annually in the midst of autumn and is popularly known as Mooncake festival or lantern festival as it is followed by family reunions, unlimited feast, rejoicing, and accomplished with moon-watching session which is predominantly important.

  • Stores are various which are lead with this phenomenal festival and to knit more is your cup of tea. However, the most common and famous is the belief of the moon lady residing in the moon, who is charismatically pretty and seems to beguile everyone to gawk at the moon. Its all about anticipating yourself for a glance of the mythical sensation.

  • Not only Singapore, but the rides of this festive atmosphere is sparkled in Philippines as well as Malaysia , where it is great to find people exulting with feasting, fista of love and affection, reunions, dance, music. The streets are filled with merrymaking and children holding lanterns  is an eye catchy scenario for anyone visiting Singapore.

  • A colourful fiesta with awesome culturally rich shows contribute to make this festival more extravagant. The radiant procession of dragon dancers, fireworks and lightning that marks its opening ceremony around New Bridge Road and Eu Tong Sen Street.

  • A visit at the Chinatown market will turn your expectations high as the moon cakes prepared with red bean paste is yummilicious and possess you with a mouth watering experience. To interact more with the vibrant atmosphere wander the embellished Chinatown passages, browsing market areas, and sampling the best of moon cakes. You can even customize these authentic cakes.

  • The encouraged participants which makes a total of about millions of gatherers makes it one vast and extravagant festival as their volunteering met with the infrastructure and a festival turning to be unique in its own way.

  • Attractions of this festival are many but what could grasp your eye are laser shows. Though there are various modifications which are met with this lantern and light shows, however it is one epic attribute to realise the importance of this event.  To meet it all, you cannot resist the glorious performances by the skilled artists.

  • The festival is promising and attracting participants and performers from almost every part of the globe. The artists are quite diversified in their form and represents richness in comedy, arts, music, instruments, spoken word, drama, theatre and lot more to indulge into. The uniqueness of this festival is comprised with this variations in the features.

So, anticipate for the most overweening festival which is calling you for those days of extreme celebrations to unleash the best of humankind. When the  moon’s set to its brightest,  leaves are turning red, and mankind is one. It is the mark of autumn when Chinese celebrates the mid-autumn festival. A glorious festival to experience at least once.

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