Friday, December 2, 2016

Tulip Festival








Growing up in a tropical country like Malaysia, and being someone who only goes on an overseas vacation during the end of the year when most of the countries on Northern hemisphere are experiencing autumn/winter, it was my first time actually experiencing spring. It is such a wondrous season of the year where plants regain their colours and flowers start blooming. 

My friends and I decided to check out the Tesselaar Tulip Festival even though we were in the midst of preparing for final exams. We jumped on a train from the city to Lilydale station and then took a shuttle bus to our destination. We reached there more or less two hours before it closed. 

We could look at this as either a good thing or a bad thing. A good thing because people were leaving and it was our chance to avoid any random passerbys being in our shots. A bad thing because we paid for the entry fees but did not have ample time to roam around the entire farm. 

Nevertheless, it was a pleasure to take time off from books and surround ourselves with nature in the realm of colours. Since tulip is the national flower of the Netherlands, the souvenir shop and the dress-code of the staff there were all Dutch-themed. It was pretty impressive to have a sense of being in Holland while you are actually in Australia. 

I have finished my finals and completed my first year at university for about 3 weeks already. Hence, I can finally blog about my visit to this festival! Barely anyone knew about my visit to this festival 'cause I haven't posted anything regarding tulips on my social media. I wanted to edit the photos nicely before I published it! And finally, here it is! I sincerely hope you guys love this post. It is one of my favourites! 

'Til next time!

photos by Patricia Lee and I, editing by me. 

Love, 
Thong Jean Lim

1 comments:

Unknown said...

These are gorgeous and exquisite pictures. So glad to see that you become pretty and pretty! And jealous that you are so lucky to see these natural beautiful scene!

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