Holidays season is greatly cherished all around the world. Especially the working class people tend to find these times relaxing and the families are always happy to be together and keep each other company. Christmas is one such occasion which befits the description. Everyone is excited be it children, teenagers, adults or even grown-ups.
I come from a background where Christmas is not celebrated with much enthusiasm and that is why I wanted to eagerly observe how people celebrate this day and how all the places light up with all the decoration sand happy vibes all around.
So, early in the evening I and one of my friend decided to not sit around and waste this holiday but go roam around and enjoy the holiday vibes and explore the Garden five area of Songpa-Gu.
Started off from the Tous les Jours café near our home where we had a coffee and some pictures with the Santa Claus wishing us Merry Christmas. Then we head off towards the bus stop and took the 302 bus to Garden five. It was the more convenient of the options rather than taking the subway.
After reaching there, I was kind of amazed with the rush of people there. Children holding shopping bags full of gifts, new clothes and what not on this special day with their parents enjoying the season of holidays.
I tried to capture some pictures of this amazing feeling and managed to click some clean shots. I was excited to be there surrounded by nothing but happiness and merry vibes.
Then we head in towards the mall where there was lighting all around. There were shimmering lights with so many different kinds of decorations and designs. People enjoying these decorations and finding sweet spots to get pictures for their social media handles. ^^
So, there’s a huge chandelier sort of design of the ceiling which is like a roof over the mall which has many different shades of colors and circulates between them time to time. It is kind of a unique design of the mall to cover the empty ground space between the various mall buildings which are divided into various sections like electronics, households, daily needs, clothing etc.
There is also a connecting hand sort of a sculpture there which is quite fascinating!!
For Christmas and New Year’s, there was a humongous tree established within the centre point of the mall. It was decorated with lights, stars, snow-flakes shaped lightings, mini Santa Claus and many other kind of decorative stuffs. It was pretty amazing and well designed.
Since, we were there for exploring and not shopping like other people, we just went by our business and clicked pictures here and there with all the decorative things and pretty lightings and went to the other side of the Garden 5 area.
We crossed the road and came across many little and singled out decorative lighting figures and those were really kind of romantic and that made us realize that how single we were but we shook off that feeling and decided to just get some pictures and have a lovely walk till the end of the garden that we will cherish forever because being away from home alone is worse than being away from home and having a friend to spend some time together.
On this happy note, we went ahead and enjoyed our walk had some really good pictures and I had the time to get creative too and used my phone to get some good portrait pictures of my friend.
Then after roaming around the garden for a while, we decided to call it a day and head back home because it was getting colder and now it was time to head home and enjoy a good home made dinner with friends and wish Merry Christmas upon ourselves and hold this memory in our minds and hearts forever.
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