It’s hard to believe that we have been in Hong Kong for over one year now! We have finished with our master’s degrees and we are now on the job hunt. However, it was recently the Chinese New Year so we took some time from applying to jobs to go check out one of the lunar fairs in Victoria Park. While most expats decide to travel around the region during this time, we decided to act like a local and get into the spirit of the new year. (Plus, we are broke, newly GRADUATED master’s students so flying to the Philippines to spend a week on a white sanded beach wasn’t exactly in the budget.) This year is the year of the snake!
I actually think it was worse than New Year’s Eve in LKF with the amount of people all in one place at one time. (I think I’ve mentioned this before but LKF is an area in Hong Kong filled with bars and clubs and an outrageous amount of people out drinking in the streets. It’s unlike anything I have ever encountered before and it happens every weekend.) The crowd in Victoria Park was acting in unison and it was virtually impossible to escape the continuously flowing and never waning sea of people. Personally, I like to stop and look at the different stalls in a fair but I was overruled in this instance.
Here’s a view of the crowd. Of course, I had to stick my arm all the way up to catch a shot.
Lucky for Chris, he’s much taller than other people so he had no problem looking around. I, on the other hand, just saw a the back of a bunch of people’s heads.
Some stuffed animals and disrobed bananas for sale
Some views of the beautiful flowers for sale in the flower markets for the Chinese New Year. As you might be able to tell, I don’t have the most artistic eye for photographs but you get the point.
Last, but not least, here’s a picture of us all dressed up with all the festive Chinese New Year decorations in the background. Ignore the large lantern blocking Chris’ face. I suppose all pictures can’t be perfect.