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Chinese new year festivities run for almost a month. It starts with decoration using Chinese couplets and lanterns and other things, and finishes at the Lantern Festival, when there are fireworks shows all over China. In between, daily barrages of fireworks are burned up by people in the streets, including letting off paper lanterns, which symbolically carry the bearer’s wishes to the heavens. It’s also time for lots of banquets and drinking. But the new year is largely and staunchly a family occasion: on new year day’s eve people gather for the traditional annual family dinner (no shops, bars, or restaurants open on the eve of new year and most of the next day in China’s less commercialised cities). And on the following morning, families flock to the local temple to make offerings to the deities, burn incense and paper money to the ancestral spirits, and let off fire crackers to honour all the ghosts. Below is a collection of pictures of Chinese new year in the city where Pepper Mountains has its base in China.
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Itineraries that go into the back regions, beyond the tourist circuits
Light adventures, cultural immersion, interactive holidays
Experience, sensitivity and passion 
Pockets 
Craft Asian accessories or implements from bamboo, rattan, and other natural materials
