Beijing Chaoyang International Spring Carnival

Plan your Beijing trip during spring festival? Visiting a temple fair is a must. For each spring festival, I'd like to visit one temple fair to feel and touch the new year. My pick this year is to visit the temple fair inside Chaoyang Park since I've heard a lot about this special temple fair which claims its difference from a traditional one. It is supposed to be an Ocean People ( 洋人 foreigners ) temple fair.

Situated in the northeast of Beijing, Chaoyang Park is the largest city park in Asia. The park has four gates with its main gate in the south. So I take a taxi to the south gate of Chaoyang Park. I'm happy with my decision to take a taxi instead of driving my own car seeing the gate packed with hordes of visitors.

The gate decoration and the huge signboard by the gate tell me that this temple fair in Chaoyang Park has its trendy and exotic name "Beijing Chaoyang International Spring Carnival". The "Carnival" of this kind started in the year 2002, so this year is the 10th Beijing Chaoyang International Spring Carnival. So it is a carnival, not a temple fair?

The carnival is valid Jan 23-28, 2012, from 9:00am to 5:00pm. Entrance fee: RMB 10. The entrance ticket sample.

The Southern Gate of Chaoyang Park festively decorated.

I spend 2 hours wandering around the park to discover the difference between Chaoyang Temple Fair (or officially named "carnival"). Beijing Chaoyang International Spring Carnival is composed of five theme parts - Foreign Performances, Foreign Stalls, Amusement, Games, and Traditional Snacks.

So what differentiate from a traditional temple fair is that Chaoyang Carnival has Foreign Performances, Foreign Stalls, which turn out to be a little bit disappointed.

Foreign Performances

Foreign singers and music bands are invited to perform during the temple fair in Chaoyang Park on two stages - Lihua Stage and Grass Stage, plus Street Art. The huge signboard by the gate shows the whole day schedule for the performances. The foreign singer is putting on a performance.

Kids will definitely like the carnival since Chaoyang Park has a special zone allocated for amusement and recreation. The recreation zone has a wide variety of amusement facilities as well as a small lake for skating or playing on ice.

Having a panoramic view of Beijing city by taking a parachute.

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