Lantern Festival at Kuan Yin Temple Ipoh

At first, I know about this event by the banners by the roadside somewhere in Ipoh but I couldn't conclude where exactly the location is. I don't really know where is this Kuan Yin Temple was! Somehow, it was that evening as we done with our reunion dinner at Wong Kok Restaurant, we decided to go pay a visit there. Well, my dad know where it was so there isn't any trouble to locate the place.

The events is held in the middle of the dark by the roadside not far away from The Lost World of Tambun near Sunway City, Ipoh. As we passed by the main road from Tambun, we can clearly see the colourful lanterns decorating the area. Well, this place was kind of isolated and I'm sure not many people really know how to get here. Sumore, there isn't any signboard which point to this location.

It have been raining in the evening and the place was wet, everywhere. When you have to walk around with water patches all over the place and muds and so on, thats irritating.

Hmm, a nicely decorated tree. Yeah, tree a said.

The main entrance gate into the Lantern Fest park. Looks so majestic and it was really beautiful.

Some colorful flower looking lanterns.

Fish brings a good meaning to the Chinese and here we have many nice fish lanterns.

Oh Yeah, talk about the Kuan Yin Temple, you certainly can't miss the gigantic Kuan Yin goddess lantern.

Now, isn't these characters look familiar. It's Shu Wukong and others from the story Journey to the West

Various lanterns resembles insects.

Here is a giant lanterns. Nicely decorated and colorful too. There are four cute little cow around the lantern. This year, Cow rules!

The goddess of prosperity. With the economic downturn and so on, you got to rely on this buddy here, lol!

The 12 Chinese zodiac creatures are here too. Whenever there are such lantern festival, you just can't miss these 12 creature.

Snail, ant, mantis, grasshopper.... where is the mosquito anyway? You know, the infamous Aedes thingy. They're the celebrities nowdays.

Perhaps I didn't came here on the right time. It was Chinese New Year eve where everyone having reunion dinner with family thus this place was kind of quiet that evening. Somehow, I was so impressed with all those lanterns stuff there have there. It was such beautiful though it was a little on a small scale expo but hey, something got to start somewhere isn't?
I do hope that this Lantern Festival could turn out to be an annual event and keep improving. Ipoh does need events like these to grow.

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