{"id":1881,"date":"2010-03-02T16:47:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T08:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/?p=1881"},"modified":"2010-03-02T16:47:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T08:47:30","slug":"visit-to-dong-zhen-%e4%bd%9b%e5%85%89%e5%b1%b1%e6%9d%b1%e7%a6%aa%e5%af%ba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/?p=1881","title":{"rendered":"Visit To Dong Zhen \u4f5b\u5149\u5c71\u6771\u79aa\u5bfa"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of times I’d seen Jasmine<\/a> posted about her visits to Dong Zhen temple<\/a>, and the beautiful photos she’d taken, and I’d told Daddy that we must also visit this temple one day.<\/p>\n

On the 3rd day of Chinese New Year, since we didn’t have anywhere to go, we brought the girls on the long car ride to Jenjarom, to visit the Dong Zhen Temple (Actually, I don’t know why it’s called Dong Zhen, because the Chinese pronunciation for \u6771\u79aa is Dong Chan. Maybe it’s how it’s pronunced in another dialect).<\/p>\n

We had a simple panmee dinner at some open air eatery before the temple, when we’re done, it was close to to 8pm and the road towards the temple has already been blocked. We had to park and walk about 1km. <\/p>\n

The temple was very beutifully decorated, with red lanterns, fairy lights, and colour ligh tubes everywhere. They have very good lantern display, beautiful lanterns in all the Chinese zodiac signs, as well as in other auspicious forms were scattered around the big temple ground. The place has also drawn a very big crowd.<\/p>\n

\"Prosperity<\/p>\n

\"Zara<\/p>\n

\"Chinese<\/p>\n

\"Chinese<\/p>\n

They had some Chinese New Year show on as well, and when we arrived, the Dragon Dance was being performed but we didn’t manage to catch it because we didn’t know the way to get to the performance area (heard it but couldn’t see it).<\/p>\n

We only managed to catch a mini parade.
\n\"Budha<\/p>\n

\"Guan<\/p>\n

When the girls wanted to go to the toilet, I thought the nightmare has come. I assumed with such a big crowd, the toilet would be filthy. To my surprise, it was very clean. The volunteers who cleaned the toilet did such a good job I had to say.<\/p>\n

We then got caught in a rain fall, which lasted about 20mins. The rain didn’t cool down the place, but made the ground a bit soggy (and I didn’t like it).<\/p>\n

\"Zaria<\/p>\n

I didn’t want to walk any more but just sat at a bench with the girls, while Daddy went around to take more photos.<\/p>\n

\"Another<\/p>\n

\"Lanterns<\/p>\n

\"One<\/p>\n

\"\u5409\u7965<\/p>\n

Although the whole place was beautiful, the stiffling night heat took away all the fun. Both Zara and I agreed that if Daddy wanted to go again next year, he’ll have to go alone, as we don’t want to be drenched in sweat any more.<\/p>\n

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