Some 7,000 lanterns are displayed around Sibu town from today until 4th October to mark the Mid-Autumn Festival which falls on 3rd October.
The lanterns are displayed from the Tua Pek Kong temple to Jalan Channel, Lembangan Market towards Sibu Gateway. The whole idea is to light up Sibu town and provide the perfect ambience for the people to celebrate the Lantern Festival.
The dragon head can be found at the Tua Pek Kong area. This is where the lanterns display begins.
From here the display pass through Chew Geok Lin Road
And pass through one of the oldest coffee shop in town, Moi Soung into Channel Road
The 15 inch by 20 inch red lanterns are said to be specially imported from China. This project is jointly organised by Sibu Municipal Council and Sarawak Kutien Association.
Along Channel Road, the lanterns are displayed in the shape of the dragon.
From Channel Road, it continues through Pansar Building, Ambank and Tanahmas Hotel (Chambers Street)
And this will lead to Sibu Gateway
At Sibu Gateway, the lanterns comes in a colourful display of red, green, yellow, pink and blue which represent the multi racial Malaysian population who live in harmony together
At the end of the lanterns line, at the edge of Sibu Gateway is the iconic symbol of the town, the swan
The official lighting ceremony will be tonight at Sibu Gateway at 7pm.
Hopefully this will be an annual event. The lantern display will continue until 4th October.It should be a magnificent sight at night and hopefully I'm able to capture some images with my compact digital camera.
14 comments:
Beautiful! How long the Lantern is? Should put into the Malaysia Guinness Record! :)
Wow! So many lanterns! So Sibu is going big on mooncake festival?
wow. they are doing that for mid autumn festival yea. like CNY season.
From me to you, suejean =)
I think the lanterns line is about 400-500m. Should be easily entered into Malaysian Book of Record.
I'm sure there will be the town is going big for the mid autumn festival. Really hope they had such lanterns during CNY also
lanterns beautifies the whole area..
love the lantern. it makes sibu beautiful. must be even more beautiful at night
It is nicer when you see it at night. I just saw it light up two night ago as they are testing all the lighting. Really nice.
this is nice will come to check it out this tomolo
WOW!! That is a lot lanterns!!!! I thought it is chinese new year. LOL!!
This is the first time they have big celebration on the moon cake festival? I don't think i saw this before in Sibu.
Yes, this is the first time they had such lanterns of such scale in Sibu. Some said it is a waste of public fund but it is sure beautiful.
really a beautiful sight. kids would truly love the display. hope to see your night shots of the lanterns.
Borneo, besides impressed with the lanterns, I more impressed with the hard work and effort that you putting on as u shooting the photo from beginning till end! I really appreciate that and many thanks to u for sharing these nice photos.
you really covered this event. i did it in my own usual way.. touch n go... skim the surface. u did a great job here with the two posts. i dont know but for me, i just cant seem to do a complete job. just too lazy.... most likely
It must be a mega project by Sibu Munipal..~!!
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