Jakarta Escape: Escape to the Chinese New Year 2011 Celebration

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Escape to the Chinese New Year 2011 Celebration

Living in Indonesia, Jakarta especially, is a wonderful experience. Many culture I could find here. And many celebration of ethnic and religion I could find and visit.
Chinese New Year celebration, known well as Imlek, is one of the celebration.

A few days before this Chinese New Year celebration, Jakarta Escape decide to visit Glodok area. The area known well as one of China Town in Jakarta. Just by taxi and ask the driver to drop us in the Glodok Kota, which consider in Central of Jakarta.
After pay the taxi, by walking I trying to looking for gang way named "Petak Sembilan". Walking in this alley really new experience for me. Many of China New Year props sell along the way.

Once we arrive in the monastery, I saw some of the residents of Chinese generation looked so busy to do some prayer preparation around the monastery of "Kim Tek Ie".
Interlude | time for a break, after did some a prayer ceremony preparation of Chinese new year 2526 in the monastery of Kim Tek Ie

Chinese New Year 2011 | Monastery / Vihara of Kim Tek Ie

Awaiting | the interior of Kim Tek Ie monastery has been cleaned up to welcoming all of Chinese citizen

Chinese New Year 2011 | Breathing Moment

The old man take his time for a break, after served some visitors in the monastery of Kim Tek Ie.

Chinese New Year 2011 | breathing time

For Prosperity, Blessing and Graceful | In Thursday morning, February 3, 2011, on the first day of the Chinese new year 2562, most of the Chinese residents continued to pray in the Kim Tek Ie monastery.
In their prayer, they hope for blessing and prosperity in the beginning of the new Chinese year 2562, the year of the Rabbit.