End of October Festivals :: 2 - Harvest Festival/Mooncake Festival

Right, apart from the shot of the tarantula we saw in Langkawi, and the 100's of Angkor Wat temple shots Joss needs to post, these photos bring us up-to-date with out adventures since July.

The Mooncake festival (public holiday) celebrates the harvest moon @ the end of Oct.

Mooncakes are (traditionally) a yellow bean and dried egg yolk affair - shared by all as a symbol of the new moon. Weird taste - hard to describe -- cross between an old egg (taste) and one of those yellow banana shaped sweets (texture) you used to get. But you can also buy ice cream versions -- coffee flavours etc etc

We were told that the beach in front of the apartment was a great place to spend the festival evening -- sure enough, the whole of HK was there (and remained there partying until 02:00+).

A beautiful clear night -- very warm. And then, as if by magic , the largest full moon I've ever seen suddenly popped up over the mountains/hills North of the coast. Quite stunning.

And I discovered the time lapse/flash mode on my camera that night -- they were selling these neon glow lites for about 5p each ... so everyone got hundreds and made castles/fortresses out of them -- or just danced with them like the boys did!

I know you can only see the back of him, but I really like the shot of Archie dancing with the sticks.

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