Doggies Coming - Dragons and Lions at the Chinese New Year - chapter II


After couple of hours of loosing ourselves in the crowd we felt like peace and quiet and backed away in some alley that looked less attractive. 50 or so men in red were playing with some huge polls and masks, and Ake's face goes extatic :" The Dragon Dance! We found it! This is gonna be good!"

Because we were one of the first one's on the scene we got "front tickets", under the dragon's nose as it were...:)))

The drumming started, I mean this blood boiling rhythm that drove all the foreigners into our direction. Fingers clicking, feet stumping, heads bouncing...ahhhh...and 6 men doing this weird dance carrying two large colourful lions. There's the catch the orange exchange, mouth to mouth, the 3 men shoulder stand, without no sling..talk about crazy...



We thought, ahh, it can't get any better than this...but it did!!!...a huge dragon carried up around a 20 m pole that burst out into fireworks all this with drums going wild...by now, alll foreigners are clapping their hands maaaad, some Chinese were dancing and Thais were savouring their 10th beer and cheering....