15 days of Chinese lunar new year celebration is finally over. The Chinese Valentine’s Day or YuanXiao (元宵) was the last celebration on the 15th Day or yesterday. Everything is back to normal today. Shopping malls stopped playing back New Year songs. All new year decorations around town have been dismantled. I’m reluctantly back to work now! As my life will go on, a last piece of photo taken during the new year celebration is posted here as a conclusion to my celebration.

As usual, I took the shot with Nikon D60 and Nikkor 35mm lens. Firing a direct fill flash helped balancing those shadow areas nicely and 1/200s fast sync shutter speed proved to be useful to freeze their action. To avoid my wife from murmuring me, I’ve added some soft skin effect to hide some of the blemishes! Haha!

I love this portrait. It was captured in Genting Highland during CNY this year. A strong feel of Chinese New Year with Cherry blossom as background. Smiles from both Jean and Chloe’s face look wonderful to me. Hope you like it too. That’s it for the Year of Tiger! – Travel Feeder, the ultimate travel photo blog RA9WE4S9YPVR

If you are visiting Malaysia, one of the top places to go in Malaysia should include the Langkawi Island in northern Peninsular Malaysia. What can you see in Langkawi? Other than beaches or Perdana Gelleria, the next hot spot to go must be this crocodile farm. In fact there are not much things you can see in Langkawi but this farm surely worth a visit. Langkawi Crocodile Farm or Taman Buaya Langkawi in Malay is a 20-Acre-Land featuring over 1000’s of crocodiles in various species and also alligators, in a few separated man-made ponds.

I went there last year on my company trip to Langkawi. It has been 10 years since my last time there and there are still reasons to revisit this island.

After paying RM8 entrance fees, visitors could explore the garden the way you like freely. The main pond is the biggest with pedestrian bridge built over it.

Visitors could walk slowly on this bridge overlooking many crocodiles doing all sorts of activities resembling their real lives.

The environment within this 2o acre compound is very nice, comfortable, clean with lush greenery.

Wow, look at that! What’s the species of these crawling crocodile?

Further strolling down the walking path, we came to the show pond. No seating provided, visitors have to stand around the stage to watch the ‘man vs crocodile’ live performances.

There are 2 ‘old’ and tamed but big crocodiles in 2 small ponds. First of them came out of water to start the show…

Why is he opening his big jaw with sharp teeth? Any prey around? The audience?

Oops! He actually just woke up and waiting his teeth to be brushed!

Simple action. The crocodile went back into the pond to sleep again after that. Lazy creature…

Now. The highlight of the day came. The second giant crocodile is coming!

Anaconda?

Water being sprayed onto her rapidly as she was crawling up. A hot tempered one I guess…

Dang dang…. dang dang… dang dang…..dang dang….

“Hi! How are you? Stay your head up will you?”

“Don’t move babe! I’m on your back…”

“Freeze!”

“Oh no! She is opening her mouth! Run! Guy Run!”

“Don’t worry! Superman is here… ”

“Err… let me test whether her teeth or my arm is stronger… ”

It’s more than 4m in length! Ladies and gentlemen, the show is over.

We continued to walk through the bridge over pond.

Wondering what are they doing? Sleeping? Chatting? Playing? Dying?

It suddenly rained. Look at them! They are alive! They definitely love rains!

We came to another pond. Oh no! These crocodiles are not friendly at all! They are looking for preys! They are mouth watering…

Oh I see. This is the feeding pond where crocodiles who are starving will crawle to here to look for real food, fresh meat. Only difference is there are served by trainers.

“Bye bye! Food’s finished! Not full enough? Try to be stronger next time!”

Other than that, visitors could also find a restaurant and a souvenirs shop inside the Langkawi Crocodile Farm. For RM8 per entry, you can spend your time there from 9am to 6pm. We stayed there for one and 1 half hour and that should be enough unless you are having lunch there or wandering in the souvenir shop. “Is it worth to go?” Should pay a visit if you haven’t been there before. “Is this post worth to read?” Must subscribe to my Feed via RSS or email if you haven’t done so! – Travel Feeder, the ultimate travel photo blog

The above photos were captured with Panasonic Lumix FZ28

Sounds like a devotee? Yes. Temple after temple on the 5th Day of Chinese New Year (年初五). We went to TianHou Temple, the biggest temple in KL after brunch (Malaysian slang: Breakfast and Lunch together!), and visited the Taiwan’s FuoGuangShan (佛光山) initiated DongZen Temple after dinner. It was actually planned by me. If you have read my previous post about TianHou Temple at night and FGS DongZen Temple at day last year, this is an update to the same places but in different time of day!

What are the 2 things dominated temples during Chinese New Year? Bingo! It’s lanterns and incense. Here are some photos captured in Tian Hou Temple…

There were people all over the temple who came here for prayer, devotion, site seeing, lantern watching, photo taking and so on…

What you could see from the above photos other than lanterns are lanterns or else lanterns. Have you got enough?

In the evening, we travelled for 1 and a half hour to another temple in Jenjarom, near Banting, Selangor. It’s DongZen Temple. Parking were all full and we needed to parked our car 2 blocks away. DongZen temple is the uprising destination during Chinese New Year because of it’s attractive lighting at night. Many people come here merely for it light decorations every year. I’m one of them…

All decorations with lighting are creatively designed and constructed with steel frame and thin cloth.

Wu Hoo! (五虎) Five tigers in the Year of Tiger.

GuanYin in a lotus pond.

Lanterns. This time is a mix of red and yellow lanterns…

At around 10:00pm, actress acting like a GuanYin (观音) parading in the crowd and splashing holy water to the crowd.

This sculpture of Buddha attracted many crowds as well.

Remember where the ‘paper felt’ buddha statue stood last year? It’s GuanYin statue this year…

As there were so crowded inside the compound, I did not take many photos indeed. These are just some introduction images to DongZen Temple at night. The traffic was so jam when we left the place and guess what? We reached home at 1:30am!

Today is the 11th Day of Chinese New Year. There are still 4 days for whoever interested to see all these lighting and lanterns at these 2 temples. And I’m still have 4 days to celebrate this Chinese New Year of Tiger. GONG XI FA CAI – Travel Feeder, your only travel photo blog.

Happy Lunar New Year of Tiger again! Sorry if you think these are too much but I just couldn’t resist myself from posting more photos of this new year celebration. If  you happened to be here in Malaysia as a visitor, you must have seen all these decorations in Kuala Lumpur during this festive season. If you are not, you might still have seen these in the TV or over the internet as part of  the decorations around the world where there are Chinese to celebrate. If you haven’t seen anything like these this year, here are some beautiful decorations for this lunar new year celebration in Kuala Lumpur Pavilion shopping mall. Be the one to celebrate with us during this festival!

Being the latest addition of megamall in KL, Pavilion has dumped in plenty of money to decorate its premise during lunar New Year of Tiger.

I just couldn’t choose the best to post it here, so I posted them all! These shots are about the hanging lantern decoration at the main entrance.

Also this….

.. and this…

This is the last photo. Enough?

You should have seen this crystal bowl fountain display at day. This is how this Feng Shui bowl looks at night with colourful lighting…

It changed to green colour after a while…

… and now is blue colour…

… and purple colour also…

Crystal bowl fountain? Yes. It’s really a fountain…

These bowls is situated in the middle of the main entrance of Pavilion. You can also see those hanging lanterns behind it.

What a roaring New Year of Tiger!!

All these decorations have made me think of my trip to South Yangtze China.

Red lanterns for prosperity in Chinese belief.

Pavilion has now turned into Xin Tian Di of shanghai!

Am I in China?

Plum blossom or Mei Hua (梅花) is the national flower of China and we can see them in Pavilion KL now!

Before I leave, just another 2 shots on red lantern. Wishing you good fortune and prosperous this year!

I like the mood of this  photo.

Last but not least, booths in conjunction with Lunar New Year are set up at the basement lobby. Visitors could shop for some Chinese New Year souvenirs.

That’s all again folks! Happy Chinese New Year. Another short post as I’m still busy celebrating this roaring new year for the 5th day now. Cheers! If you want update travel stories from me, feel free to subscribe Travel Feeder’s feed via RSS or Email,  NOW! - Travel Feeder, the ultimate travel photo blog

The above photos were captured with Nikon D60

Here are some photos I snapped on Chinese New Year biscuits, oranges and drinks. These are what we eat and drink during this festive seasons in Malaysia. Biscuits are home made, mandarin oranges are from China and drink is lemonade beer.

Just a short update as I’m still celebrating Chinese New Year of Tiger.

Hey Dylan! What are you trying to take? You’ve had enough biscuits today!

Weather is extremely hot these days here in Malaysia. Shandy (Lemonade alcoholic drink) is best to cool me down…

…since I can’t miss to eat these new year home made biscuits.

Another way to cool down my body is to eat 2 of these mandarin oranges…

That’s all for now. See ya! – Travel Feeder, the ultimate travel photo blog

The above photo was captured with Nikon D60