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Chinese Dragon: HK Bun Festival Parade
Dragon dancers are just one of the many lively elements found in the parade during the bun festival each year on Hong Kong's Cheung Chau Island.
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HK Bun Festival Parade
The HK Bun Festival includes a parade with many traditional Chinese costumes and themes.
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Hong Kong Bun Festival
Photo Essay written 12 May 2008
A traditional festival that was outlawed for more than 15 years has been attracting over 50,000 people annually since being reinstated in 2005.
HK Bun Festival Attendees
Aside from traditional buns, Cheung Chau Island is also famous for its fresh seafood. Festival attendees have many choices of outdoor cafes where they can relax and wait for the midnight competition to begin.
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Bun Tower: HK Bun Festival 2008
Each year hundreds of Chinese buns are tied together to construct a 45-foot tall tower, which will be scaled at midnight on May 12th by competitors trying to reach the top as quickly as possible.
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Bun Festival Tower: detail
Each year hundreds of Chinese buns are tied together to construct a 45-foot tall tower, which will be scaled at midnight on May 12th by competitors trying to reach the top as quickly as possible.
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Barcolonetta Sunset
Sailboats dock against the Port Vell shore. This peninsula beach backs against the Mediterranean Sea and is a perfect spot for morning or afternoon strolls along the shore.
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Tower to tower.
Agbar Tower as seen from atop one of the Sagrada Familia towers. Dwelling spaces, busy streets, and newly constructed office buildings unfold below two of Barcelona's most well known structures.
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Sants Station
Barcelona Sants Station is a major hub of transport just near the southern coast of Barcelona.
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Tower stairs.
Gaudi's winding staircase brings you within arms length of the Sagrada Familia's most beautiful attributes. From inside the tower, you really can reach out and touch a piece of art history. Although the ride to the top of the towers now utilize elevator technology, descending the staircase is the preferred return path to ground-level.
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John Rash has been a member since 23 March 2008 and goes by rashphoto.
Currently in North Carolina.
I am a digital photography and multimedia production instructor at Randolph Community College in North Carolina. I study mandarin Chinese, love underground music and counter culture communities, and usually focus on portrait or travel photography.
You can also find John at rashphoto.blogspot.com.
