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What Patong Beach is first famous for? The beach off course! I’ve posted quite a number of Phuket travel stories so far but I still haven’t posted much things about the beach itself. This is it: The Patong Beach, the beach itself. We reached Phuket and Patong in the morning, had our first look at Patong Beach and had our first lunch at Jungceylon shopping mall. After lunch, we walked around the town to get some feel of the environment and local culture, and we headed back to our Safari Beach Resort for a brief nap…. zzzzzzzz.

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In the late afternoon, we went out again. This time we were walking down to the beach, just across the Beach Road in front of our hotel (this is the best part of Safari Beach Hotel which situated in front of the beach and next door to Bangla Street). Have you ever experienced this: You thought of going somewhere or buying something on travel but you did not do it in the first place and you started to say to yourself, “Nevermind, I still can do that LATER”? And what would happen next? You would never have the 2nd chance to do it! It happened to me on my Gold Coast travel where we thought of going back to see the sunset at Surfers Paradise on our last day but we failed eventually as bad traffic delayed our way back from Hinterland and it was already night hours when we reached home…

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So, whatever you think you want to do or see or buy on travel, DO IT IMMEDIATELY or you’re going to miss it! Same with our fun hours at the beach of Patong. If we delayed to go to the beach on our first day in Patong evening, we were going to miss the best evening sunlight in Patong as there were too cloudy to see sunset on the rest of our days in Phuket!

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I love the late afternoon sunlight at Patong beach. The beach was so attractive under it…

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While many tourists were sunbathing under the sun, there were many other activities going on the beach.

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Beach parachute ride is a famous activities at Patong Beach.

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We were doing something else…. crab catching!

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Jetskiing is another favourite sport on the beach.

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Love sunlight, lovely wife… :)

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Beach soccer is among the local favourite sport on the beach. There are a lot of Thai soccer talents out there…

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An illusion of moving sand after wave tides, one of my favourite shot.

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Beach chairs could be rented for sunbathing and there are also best for people watching!

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Singha Beer on the beach! Lovely!

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The best part on the beach of Patong: visitors were served with complimentary Starbucks coffee! Wonderful! I couldn’t find any of this in Malaysian beach. Can you?

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An unique feeling of tasting coffee on beach! :)

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Though evening sun is bright, scattered clouds blocked parts of the sunset unfortunately…

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The best dusk scene I could captured on the day in Patong Beach. The sun set at 7pm and we left the beach for our first dinner in Patong! What we did at night after dinner? Exploration on the Bangla Street, the most happening street in Patong and Phuket!

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Don’t miss my upcoming stories on Phuket travel. I will try to wrap up the whole story of my travel to Phuket before this May. Why? In May I will write and concentrate more on my exciting short 14-day tour to Western Europe! :)

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cecil on February 24th, 2010

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…

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

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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…

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

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

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GuanYin in a lotus pond.

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

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

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This sculpture of Buddha attracted many crowds as well.

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

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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 CAITravel Feeder, your only travel photo blog.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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Also this….

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.. and this… :)

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This is the last photo. Enough?

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

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It changed to green colour after a while…

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… and now is blue colour…

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… and purple colour also…

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

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

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What a roaring New Year of Tiger!!

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

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Red lanterns for prosperity in Chinese belief.

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Pavilion has now turned into Xin Tian Di of shanghai!

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Am I in China?

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

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

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I like the mood of this  photo. :)

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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

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cecil on February 15th, 2010

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.

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cecil on February 11th, 2010

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cecil on February 10th, 2010

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cecil on January 30th, 2010

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cecil on January 1st, 2010

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