Posts Tagged ‘Chinese New Year’

Property developers and Melbourne’s Chinese New Year Festival

Each year Melbourne’s holds a Chinese New Year Festival, and for the Year of the Dragon things were no different, with the streets of Chinatown being blocked off on January 29 to make way for the festivities. All of the traditional Chinese New Year attractions were there, but a few more commercial ones.

Lion dance outside a Melbourne restaurant for Chinese New Year

Melbourne’s 2006 Chinese New Year festival

Yesterday was the first day of the Chinese Year of the Dog. And because of this, they had celebrations in Chinatown in Melbourne. Because where else would you hold it?