Yo fellas, this vlog showcases me and my friend’s Nagasaki backpack trip. Our main aim was to check out the famous Nagasaki lantern festival, which boasts of over 15,000 colorful and beautiful lanterns. It was started by the Chinese community of Nagasaki (Nagasaki is quite multi-cultural with lots of Thais and Chinese folks there), to celebrate the Lunar New Year. We went to Shinichi Chinatown of Nagasaki, which is like the main place for the festival, and were greeted by a plethora of intricately crafted lanterns of various types and sizes. There are also events like Emperors dance, dragon dance, Chinese acrobats etc. which happen during specific days of the festival.
Next, we headed to the Nagasaki Penguin (entry was 500 yen I think), which was my first time seeing penguins. And boy there were loads of cute ones there! There are around 8 species of different penguins, though i could just make out the emperor penguins and the ones which were less colorful. You can actually even pet and feed them if you go on a weekend (for 500-yen i think)!
We also made time to roam around the Peace Park, which hosts a 10-meter-tall statue symbolizing the need for peace and a stark reminder of the atomic bomb that devastated the area.
Our guesthouse and the host were very nice. The sleeping arrangements were quite comfortable, the place had Wi-Fi and a free to use laptop and even provided breakfast all for just 2300 yen a night, and of course the hosts were friendly and well-travelled too. Also the location was good, so we had access to good restaurants too, we normally had Chinese cuisine called Champon which is a regional delicacy of Nagasaki and is basically a noodle-soup with various veggies and meats (Ringer hut has massive servings for comparatively cheap prices).
Following are some links for more information about the places i wrote about:
Lantern Festival
Penguin Aquarium
Peace Park
That’s all for this vlog, thanks for watching (apologies for the audio quality and focussing errors) and reading this guys, take care and see y’all at my next vlog. Peace. Oh and for my one-minute vlogs (and to look at some pretty pics), follow my Instagram channel @parenvlogs
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