Dance of joy

I never knew this festival existed in Malaysia for the past 33 years. Bon Odori. A friend asked me to come along and all of us went armed with our digital SLRs like hunters out for a kill :) It was an interesting sight with many stalls set up selling Japanese food followed by performance of drums and dances. Plenty of people attended until there was no place to sit and hardly any room to take photos.

And the number of cameras (and photographers with more than 1 camera) exceeded the number of participants by many many fold. It was astounding. I guess many came to shoot the kimono clad girls. The were many Japanese wannabes hanging around too. It was a pretty interesting sight.

Anyway, managed to purchase a Japanese alcohol free beer! It tastes sweet and nice, unlike the usual beer. Got some Japanese green tea in bottles too. I bought the tea because they came in very unique bottles. What a sucker I am ;)

Anyway some of the photos here. I'm sure there will be hundreds of blog postings about the same thing.