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Yanshui Fireworks Festival

February 28, 2013 by Jenna Longoria, HHC, AADP 1 Comment

The full moon has been known to make people do crazy things. Good thing the final day of the Chinese New year is always planned to fall on one. It’s my theory that the spell of the moon is one of the reasons the Taiwanese have the balls to jump into a sea of fireworks […]

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Chinese New Year Day 14: Let’s Blow Stuff Up.

February 24, 2013 by Jenna Longoria, HHC, AADP 1 Comment

The Yanshui Firework Festival takes place tomorrow in Tainan, located 40 km north of Kaohsiung. Also known as the Beehive Rocket Festival, it has been deemed the 5th most dangerous festival in the world. The event is compromised of bottle rockets, ritualistic dancing, and good food. Who could ask for anything more? But to make it to […]