Cabramatta Moon Festival

The Moon Festival is celebrated across Asia during early September. The actual date varies every year as it is determined by the equinox - when day and night are equal in length. It is also on this day when the moon is at its brightest and roundest. Families have reunions and eat mooncakes and gaze at the moon.

We got to Cabramatta around 4pm, and things are really swinging by then. The town centre of Cabramatta was closed off to vehicular traffic and packed with stalls selling food, toys, food, clothes, food, trinkets, food, lantern displays, and more food. The residents and visitors are out in full force, and everyone was having fun. There were carnival rides and jumping castles for the kids; breakdancing competitions and dance workshops for the young ones; even a karaoke-style concert for the oldies. On the center stage, we have skits, song and dance numbers, acrobatic acts, martial arts displays, lion dances, and the lantern parade.