Neighborhood Walk
Inspired by #WednesdayWalk by @tattoodjay
All photos shared are from my personal collection.
We love walking around our neighborhood. However, I hardly take photos, as for me, I have no lovely sceneries to share. It's mainly buildings -- old and new, tall and short. Some places are pretty crowded, all bustling with activities everywhere. That's the city life. It has been my life for many years now. (PS. That's one reason we love going out of town for our local travels -- to get closer to nature.)
Anyway, despite the hustle and bustle of city life, let me share with you my neighborhood mall, Lucky Chinatown Mall. I live within 650 meters from the said mall. It usually takes us a maximum of ten minutes to get to it. However, we're not mall rats, so we just happen to go whenever we wanted to watch a movie or we needed to buy some groceries.
I remember the early days of the mall when it was not too crowded. It had a perfect spot for walking. They called it Chinatown Walk.
The area looked so fresh and clean in the early days. No crowds at all. Plus, I loved how they decorated the area in preparation for the coming holidays. In case you don't know, we start welcoming the Christmas season as early as September.
The mall has a bridge at the second and third level, where I took the aerial photos of the Chinatown Walk. Here's another shot from another angle.
Nowadays, it is quite rare to see the mall and the area surrounding it this empty. It has become truly crowded in the recent years. I have mixed emotions on that. On one hand, I'm glad the mall has become popular. That means it will stay for a long time. That's good news as we live nearby. On the other hand, that also means we couldn't enjoy it anymore like before.
A huge advantage of living nearby is that we could stay until night to take some awesome night photography of the Chinatown Walk. I love the hanging lanterns that lit up the walk.
From where I was standing on the bridge, that's the view to my right. Here's the one to my left...
The main attraction that we were waiting to take photos of was the huge lantern Christmas tree. It looked so good all lit up. Voila!
I hope you enjoyed the lovely walk featured today. We sure did a lot of walking just to take awesome photos.
PS. They change the decorations on the walk every year, so it really looks different now.
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I know the walk and the mall look nothing special to you as you have sene it so often but for me and other visitors it is new and cool to see so thanks for sharing
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Some very nice photos, the mall looks great from above!! I also love the lit-up Christmas tree!!
More lights really look nice 😊😊 nowadays, throw in more people too 😄😄 thanks for visiting!
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Nice place to visit for a walk. I think all malls try to spice it up a bit with Christmas decorations. Thanks for sharing.
Most esp this season! But you have to put up with the crowd. Thanks for dropping by :))
It always nice to see the decorations from another country, letting us learn about each other. Thanks for sharing!
I'm happy you enjoyed it. They actually spice it up differently year after year. Since it's chinatown, they have added animal zodiac decor to the chinatown walk. They also have weekly fireworks display from the start of December.
Fireworks should be fun to watch!
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What a beautiful Chinese lantern Christmas tree. So creative.
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We loved it too 😊😊
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