Sunday, August 16, 2009 / 2:01 PM
What is Ekka?? Ekka is a festive which I think only celebrates in Brisbane, where it is to celebrate the farmers hard work on farming the farm. It is also one of the bigger festive in Brisbane, where we are given 1 day public holiday too.
Last Saturday (8th August) went to Ekka with my friends, Yu Jie, Pat and Andrew. We reached there during the afternoon and played till night time. If you are in Brisbane, during this period, it is a must to go place to enjoy the atmosphere of this special festival. Mainly, you will get to enjoy seeing farm animals (definitely), from cows, dogs, horses, ducks, etc, to fireworks at night and stunt driving. The event last for about 1week and every day, there will be different events shown. For the day that I went, we managed to watch Polo competition, stunt driving and fireworks.
Other then the performances, there are lots of show bags to be bought, ranging from chocolates, sweets, toys, magazines, etc. There are also game stalls for you to win big soft toys other stalls that sells things from clothing, food, caps, etc. Last but not least, you really have to catch a glimpse of the cows, it is soo soo huge, bigger and taller than a full grown man. The animals at Ekka are all winning awards animals, thus they are the best of the best types of animals from all the Aussi farms.
Below are some pictures that I had taken at Ekka. Really had a wonderful day there :D
C THE FAT COWS, THEY ARE REALLY TALLER THAN ME SIA..
Some pictures taken while walking along the themepark and buying food :D
Polo Competition
Fireworks at Night :D And they fired it at the middle of the stadium.. very close to the audiences :D
Stunt Driving. They got motor cycle stunt drives too and this fire jet car that blust fire at the back of his car.
ShowBags, which is one of the main objective to go to EKKA. There are lots of things to purchase at the showbag exhibition. However, some things are kind of not worth the value.. so you need to know what are worth and not worth to buy. But anyway.. as for me.. I bought lots of chips and choloates at the end of the day :D
