2021/03/17 15:42 TAIPEI (Taiwan News) The 2021 Penghu International Fireworks Festival featuring 23 shows will run from April 22 to June 28, according to a press release by Penghu County’s Tourism Department. The festival is one of Taiwan’s most popular and longest-running tourism events, featuring magnificent fireworks and attracting hundreds of thousands of tourists to the archipelago every year. The fireworks festival will hold shows every Monday and Thursday at the Guanyinting Recreation Area in Magong City on Penghu s main island. In addition, Saturday night shows on May 8, May 22, and June 5 will take place on Qimei Island, Wang-an Island, and Jibei Island, respectively. The department said 2021 is the 19th anniversary of the festival and that this year’s drone and fireworks shows will include elements of the Line Friends franchise.
Award-winning mermaid lantern to light up Penghu s Jibei island
02/26/2021 09:29 PM
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Taipei, Feb. 26 (CNA) An award-winning giant mermaid-shaped lantern featured during last year s international light festival in Penghu will be reintroduced on Jibei Island at the 2021 Penghu International Fireworks Festival on June 5.
The county s Tourism Department said Friday that the 8-meter tall mermaid lantern will be the main highlight in the upcoming festival and is being brought in to create a romantic image of Jibei Island s pristine beaches through artistic light displays.
The lantern was first showcased during the Sept. 19-Nov. 7 Penghu Bay International Light Festival last year and later went on to win the MUSE Creative Awards, a design award created by the New York-based International Awards Associates in 2015.