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Chinese New Year 2012
Jan 18th
Chinese New Year 2012 – Lunar New Year 2012 – Spring Festival 2012
Spring Festival, Chinese Lunar New Year, Lunar New Year or commonly referred to just Chinese New Year, is the largest and most important annual festival celebrated by Chinese and and Chinese descendants around the world. Chinese New Year Festival is based on the lunar Chinese calendar, begins on first day of the first month in the Chinese calendar and ends with Lantern Festival which is on the 15th day of the first month. More >
Creepy Ghost Tours of the World
Jan 17th
Theme park, water park, beaches, and forests are common tourism sites chosen by most people to spend their holiday. Although those places obviously offer spectacular views and enticing experience, some people feel that they aren’t thrilling enough. Some prefer eeriness and spookiness. So, special for these different people, ghost tours are available. Different with the other attraction places, ghost tours don’t provide the visitors any rides, slides, shows, or beautiful scenery at all. The attractions offered in ghost tours are spooky, heart-thumping, and breath-taking experience which requires people’s nerves and guts. The visitors will probably find nothing at all during the tour, still they’ll sense dreadful atmosphere surrounding them. Below are some famous Ghost tour all over the world. More >
Catch a Wonderful Experience in Universal Studios Singapore
Jan 12th
Universal Studios Singapore is recently opened theme park in Singapore which becomes the first Universal Studio in Southeast Asia. Consisting of many rides and shows decorated in Hollywood and fantastic movies themes make the Universal Studios Singapore one of the best theme parks in Asia. Being inside the theme park causes the visitors feel like becoming the main actor or actress in some formidable Hollywood movies such as Jurrasic Park, Shrek, Madagascar, and some others. More >
Boryeong Mud Festival – Get Dirty in the Special South Korean Festival
Jan 10th
On the second week of July every year, a bizzare festival called Boryeong Mud Festival is held. People throw mud to each other as the tradition of the festival without feeling mucky or disturbed. The first mud festival was celebrated in 1998, and less than 10 years later, it could attract about 2.2 million citizens and tourists to attend the festival. Though, some controversies related to the tradition of throwing mud in the festival occur, one of them involving a group of students suffering rashes and red bumps after joining the festival. Apart from the controversies, people in Boryeong keep celebrate the mud festival regularly because of the great enthusiasm from the domestic and international tourists. More >
Take a Look at the Festivities of Chinese New Year
Jan 6th
Chinese New Year is the biggest and the most important festival for Chinese people which is celebrated for no less than 15 days. The festive and joyful keep occurring from the first until the fifteenth day, and people do certain kinds of customs and traditions to celebrate New Year. The objectives of celebrating Chinese New Year are to commemorate the end of winter and to welcome the Spring. The date when the festival takes place is on the first day of the first month on the Chinese Lunisolar Calendar – the upcoming Chinese New Year will be held on January 23, 2012. More >
Spread the Love in Valentine’s Day
Jan 5th
The day of love and affection is what people think when they hear about Valentine’s Day. Celebrated in February 14th every year, Valentine’s Day becomes the day when people confess and show their loves and affections to the admiring ones. In fact, it is not only the admiring-ones to whom people’s care and affection are given, but also to the families and friends. Valentine’s Day is celebrated in most countries in the world with the same purpose and intention – to show affection. More >
Happy New Year 2012 !
Dec 31st
SGHoliday has had eventful and colorful 2011, thanks to support from all our visitors, partners and subscribers.
Looking back, many things happen in 2011 throughout the world. As part of web communities, SGHoliday shares the ups and down, the sorrow and happiness, the new and the lost in 2011.
Eventually, we made it.
Let’s look forward to 2012 and wish for the best to the world with this song from Abba: Happy New Year.
iFly Singapore – The Chance for Flying without Wings
Dec 28th
iFly Singapore makes people’s dream of flying freely without the help of any aids come true. It is the world’s largest wind tunnel with 5 meters width and 17 meters high that enables the visitors to fly or skydive inside. US$25 million was spent to build this skydiving simulator, and it has just been opened for public in April 2011. People may wonder how this wind tunnel operates that it can bring solid people fly high without any parachutes, hang gliding, or whatever. iFly Singapore has certainly found the technology which makes such thing possible. More >
Discover Interesting Festivals in Japan
Dec 27th
Tourists always love to see Japan since uncountable numbers of festivals are held there each year. Some of the festivals are Cherry Blossom Festival, Sapporo Snow Festival, New Year Festival, Tanabata Festival, and Bon Festival. Even though the festivals are not always taking place in the same time from districts to districts, the joy and festive are always the same in every district. Here are some reviews about the festivals in Japan. More >
Krakatoa Festival 2011, Indonesia
Dec 24th
Krakatoa Festival, held to commemorate the super eruption Mt. Krakatoa in 1883, is going to be held on October 12 until October 16 this year – 2011. This annual festival takes place in Mt. Anak Krakatoa – the leftover mound of Mt. Krakatoa – and also in Lampung, a province where Mt. Anak Krakatoa is located. Series of attractions are prepared to celebrate Krakatoa Festival; some of them are traditional arts and dance from Lampung as well as carnival and parade. Unlike the previous years ago, Krakatoa festival this year is managed to attract tourists and local villagers in addition to the ambassadors and officers. More >
