Event - Winter in Pairi Daiza

Every season Pairi Daiza, Le Jardin des Mondes, hosts special events. The festival of lights & carnaval have brought some light to the dark season.. which is probably not a very good thing for the resident animals.. but it was a blessing for us humans fearing the Dark of Winter.

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 A photo gallery:

The fire show was by Pyronix Productions & the beautiful Venetian carnevale costumes in the Dome are from Regards Vénitiens. Both splendid!

The only 2 things I found a missed opportunity during the 3 weeks of Carnevale were:

1. The teams of costumed people were only to be found in the Dome and at the entrance. Please let them roam the entire park and how wonderful would it be to have them in themed costumes from the different regions in the park.

 2. Organise a (1) Fully costumed visitors enter for free-day.. or for a reduced price. For us with a season's pass it doesn't change much, but imagine all the great pictures in the gorgeous archtitecture of the park this would yield. I know Pairi Daiza tried to lure in costumed visitors with the contest, but they can do it with a much bigger BANG!

And 1 thing really pissed me off. During 2 weeks everybody could freely choose their seating places for the fire show. That 2nd week I found the perfect spot and swore to return the week after with the perfect lens for that spot. Waited 45 minutes to be the 1st in line so I could sit again at that exact same spot.. and suddenly, only that 3rd time, we weren't allowed to sit on the 1st rows and were forced to go move on instead of sitting where we wanted. So being 1st in I ended up in a useless corner with zero photographic visibility. Being stubborn me: I left before the show started. I had lost enough time for nothing.

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A few silly shorts from last season:
1. Clapper: Hungry Polar bear
2. Clapper: The lioness never sleeps
3. Clapper: Don't touch the Lemurians.. they will touch you
4. Clapper: Yawning like a tiger
5. Clapper: The song of the wolves
6. Clapper: A room with a view

A great advantage of winter is that the trees aren't hiding the tigers so much. Magnificent apax predators I once wrote a very short story about.

 

A direct link to this article: https://tinyurl.com/PairiDaizaWinter2024
Namaste and see you in the park!