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Saturday, October 09, 2010

So here's part 2 of the Tulip Festival:

The entire field was just packed with so many people viewing the tulips, taking photos, and even picking some. Of course, there were stalls outside the main field, which had tulips of different varieties and colours - here's one of them in the background, with some tulips displayed in the foreground.




These tulip beds were located just at the entrance of the main field. They were in a better condition compared to the ones in the main field, but were less colourful.




View of the main field from a higher point. The main field was on undulating land.



Sculpture amongst the tulips in the main field. I think it had something to do with Marxism or something - not very suitable for a tulip field (which seems to have nothing to do with politics), but oh well...



Parts of the main field, taken from a higher point. It was just massive...!!!




Tulips - I reckon they were in one of the aisles towards the side. The middle aisles seemed more colourful.



Most of the tulips were closed/starting to open, but there were some that were fully open...



The ones that were partially open looked a little ruffly...

I really like the multi-coloured varieties, especially the pattern on their petals.





Yellow tulips amongst other colourful ones...



A massive variety of colours in the middle aisles - and these aisles were where children loved to frolick and hang out. Some tulips got trampled, unfortunately.












A dandelion sculpture towards the lower end of the slope, near the middle aisles.



And a flower sculpture, which children climbed on. Unfortunately the seat was filled with heaps of mud by the time I got there...



A flame-shaped tulip which Ben spotted...



And we headed out of the main field after that. Had some good Dutch pancakes and then proceeded to make some clay figurines. It was really worth it - we paid $4 for a massive slab of clay and we could do virtually anything we wanted with it. I made quite a number of figurines but some have fallen apart :( I've got Superglue though...

We had to leave the festival grounds by 5pm (because of closing times), and here're some pictures of the main entrance:





And after that we took a bus back to Lilydale (the tulip farm was located in Silvan, a town about half an hour away from Lilydale), and a train back to the city.

Right, that concludes the entire picture collection for the Tesselaar Tulip Festival! I should really go again next spring!

Thanks lots for viewing and seeya in the near future! :D