Celebrate Chinese New Year with EVA Air in Taiwan

Light up 2010 with EVA Air and fly to Taiwan to celebrate two of the country’s biggest and most colourful events, Chinese New Year and Lantern Festival.

From 13th–16th February 2010, Taiwan celebrates Chinese New Year. Families get together to enjoy a New Year’s Eve banquet and exchange gifts brought from local street markets. At the stroke of midnight on Chinese New Year’s Eve, the doors of Taiwan's temples are thrown open and locals surge forward in an attempt to be the first to light their incense sticks, as the first person to do so is believed to be blessed with good luck for the coming year.

This year, Taiwan’s Lantern Festival will take place in Chiayi City, one of Taiwan’s largest southern cities, between 28th February and 7th March 2010. Each year the Lantern Festival is themed according to the animal of the Chinese zodiac representing that year, with 2010 being the year of the Tiger.

During the festival, colourful laser shows and firework displays will light up the night to celebrate this ‘second New Year’, which forms the final celebrations of the traditional Chinese Lunar New Year. Towns and villages throughout Taiwan also put on beautiful displays of decorative lanterns depicting birds, beasts and historical figures, which are carried by children in street processions and which decorate temples and family homes.

Experience Taiwan’s Chinese New Year and Lantern Festival with EVA Air from just £530 return in economy class including all taxes. Upgrade to Elite Class premium economy from £860 including tax.

EVA Air, Taiwan’s leading independent airline, offers passengers a choice of three classes of cabin service: Premium Laurel class (business class), Elite class (premium economy class) and Economy class. From 29th March 2010, EVA will operate a daily service from London Heathrow to Taipei via Bangkok, using state-of-art Boeing 777-300ER aircraft.

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