Destinations, Travel tips, Festivals and Public Holidays
Archive for January, 2012
Chinese New Year 2013
Jan 18th
Chinese New Year 2013 – Lunar New Year 2013 – Spring Festival 2013
Spring Festival, Chinese Lunar New Year, Lunar New Year or commonly referred to just Chinese New Year, is the largest and most important annual festival celebrated by Chinese and and Chinese descendants around the world. Chinese New Year Festival is based on the lunar Chinese calendar, begins on first day of the first month in the Chinese calendar and ends with Lantern Festival which is on the 15th day of the first month. More >
Creepy Ghost Tours of the World
Jan 17th
Theme park, water park, beaches, and forests are common tourism sites chosen by most people to spend their holiday. Although those places obviously offer spectacular views and enticing experience, some people feel that they aren’t thrilling enough. Some prefer eeriness and spookiness. So, special for these different people, ghost tours are available. Different with the other attraction places, ghost tours don’t provide the visitors any rides, slides, shows, or beautiful scenery at all. The attractions offered in ghost tours are spooky, heart-thumping, and breath-taking experience which requires people’s nerves and guts. The visitors will probably find nothing at all during the tour, still they’ll sense dreadful atmosphere surrounding them. Below are some famous Ghost tour all over the world. More >
Catch a Wonderful Experience in Universal Studios Singapore
Jan 12th
Universal Studios Singapore is recently opened theme park in Singapore which becomes the first Universal Studio in Southeast Asia. Consisting of many rides and shows decorated in Hollywood and fantastic movies themes make the Universal Studios Singapore one of the best theme parks in Asia. Being inside the theme park causes the visitors feel like becoming the main actor or actress in some formidable Hollywood movies such as Jurrasic Park, Shrek, Madagascar, and some others. More >
Boryeong Mud Festival – Get Dirty in the Special South Korean Festival
Jan 10th
On the second week of July every year, a bizzare festival called Boryeong Mud Festival is held. People throw mud to each other as the tradition of the festival without feeling mucky or disturbed. The first mud festival was celebrated in 1998, and less than 10 years later, it could attract about 2.2 million citizens and tourists to attend the festival. Though, some controversies related to the tradition of throwing mud in the festival occur, one of them involving a group of students suffering rashes and red bumps after joining the festival. Apart from the controversies, people in Boryeong keep celebrate the mud festival regularly because of the great enthusiasm from the domestic and international tourists. More >
Take a Look at the Festivities of Chinese New Year
Jan 6th
Chinese New Year is the biggest and the most important festival for Chinese people which is celebrated for no less than 15 days. The festive and joyful keep occurring from the first until the fifteenth day, and people do certain kinds of customs and traditions to celebrate New Year. The objectives of celebrating Chinese New Year are to commemorate the end of winter and to welcome the Spring. The date when the festival takes place is on the first day of the first month on the Chinese Lunisolar Calendar – the upcoming Chinese New Year will be held on January 23, 2012. More >
Spread the Love in Valentine’s Day
Jan 5th
The day of love and affection is what people think when they hear about Valentine’s Day. Celebrated in February 14th every year, Valentine’s Day becomes the day when people confess and show their loves and affections to the admiring ones. In fact, it is not only the admiring-ones to whom people’s care and affection are given, but also to the families and friends. Valentine’s Day is celebrated in most countries in the world with the same purpose and intention – to show affection. More >
