Bon Odori Penang

Bon Ondori falls on 21 July this year. Two years ago, hubby brought me to witness this celebration for the first time at Esplanade, Penang. I never heard of this festival back then. Bon Odori is a Japanese celebration which is similar to Ghost Festival for Chinese, to welcome the spirits. We went to the field by car or bike i couldn't remember well. What i can remember was there were many stalls, many japs wearing kimono & a lot of people. A stage was set in the middle of the field where there were many drums on the stage. Some Japs were performing dances & singing on the stage where people went around the stage dancing with the performers. We were only interested in the fireworks at that time :P Soon, there was announcement for fireworks presentation & it was indeed very beautiful.

These pics were taken via our small Olympus 3.2MP: