| |||||||
| Macau Travel Forum - Post your questions on Macau or share your travel stories with fellow travelers. And read our travel guides for expert advice on traveling to Macau. |
|
You are here as a guest. Sign up and get fewer ads, post your travel questions, and reply to other users. Sign up here. |
 |
| | LinkBack | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | Display Modes |
05-01-2008, 01:43 PM
| #1 (permalink) |
| Administrator  Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 984
|  Dragon Boat Festival Macau's mid-year dragon boat festival will be extended by a day this year to cater for two new races as organisers prepare for the international championships in 2010. The races are each year held during the Dragon Boat Festival, or Tuen Ng which will this year be staged over two weekends at the Nam Van Lake, beginning May 31. Yesterday a preliminary draw was held for heats and lane placings. The exact origin of the festival is unclear, however one version has it that it sprang out of the actions of imperial poet Wat Yuen (Third Century BC), who threw himself into a river because of his disgust at the decadence and corruption in the kingdom. In total more than 50 Macau teams will compete in this year's festival. |
|     |
|
Destination360 Travel Guides feature destinations throughout the globe. | ||
| Sponsored Links |
|
« Macau Casinos
|
Macanese food »
| Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
| Display Modes | |
Linear Mode
| |
Similar Threads | ||||
| Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
| Boardwalk Art Show and Festival | everyann | Virginia | 1 | 08-23-2007 05:34 AM |
| Idaho Shakespeare Festival | 2be | Idaho | 2 | 07-19-2007 01:47 PM |
| Colorado Renaissance Festival 2007 | everyann | Colorado | 0 | 06-08-2007 02:30 PM |
| La Honda Faire and Music Festival | lahondafaire | California | 1 | 05-30-2007 04:22 PM |
| New York - Tokyo Music Festival | everyann | New York | 0 | 09-20-2006 03:28 PM |
All times are GMT -8. The time now is 04:02 PM.
