28th January 2007 (Sunday)
Putrajaya
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Malaysia Flora Fest 2007
Colours of Harmony [ 20 Jan - 4 Feb 2007 ]
Malaysia is celebrating 50 glorious years of independence with the Visit Malaysia Year 2007 campaign. With over 240 exciting events and programmes lined up, it will be a year-long celebration for both Malaysians and visitors alike.
In conjunction with Visit Malaysia Year 2007, the Malaysia Floral Fest is back with the biggest and most colourful display of flora in Malaysia. The theme for this year's Flora Fest is Colours Of Harmony, as Malaysia's colourful blooms represent the beautiful racial harmony found in Malaysia. For a whole week in January, several Putrajaya and Kuala Lumpur venues will be transformed with bright, colourful and fragrant blooms.
Inspired by past successes at the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade in USA, Malaysia's very own floral parade will grace the launch of Malaysia Flora Fest 2007.
Originally introduced in 1991, Malaysia's Floral Parade is the only such parade ever organized in Southeast Asia. And this year the parade will be more dazzling than ever. Participants from various organizations and state governments will try to outshine one another with their own floral creations. |
Due to working and school commitment, we were not able to watch the Grand Parade in Putrajaya. It was a very frustrating day for Alliya and her ibu.
But we're happy to hear that all the floats will be on displayed until Monday in a so called Air-Conditioned tent.. eventhough it won't be the same like the Parade itself but at least we still had some chances of taking some photographs.
So on the Sunday, 28th January.. we headed to Putrajaya after we had our brunch. Had to pay RM5 (RM2/adult and RM1/child).. the number of crowd were quite ok but the parking system still need to be improved
(another sigh!!)
Alliya was getting ready with her Kodak Easyshare and was busy clicking once we got there.. she used up her 32Mb memory card so quickly and yet she still have 4 more floats left to capture. She was disappointed at first.. but she smiles again when we told her to use the Oly to capture the last 4 floats. These are some of the images captured through her eyes..
