Ran-no-Kan/Orchid's House in Nagoya

Ran no Kan is an orchid's exhibition opened in Nagoya featuring a lot of species from Central America, Singapore, and other countries. You would be amazed by the beauty of God's work in these flowers. Their beauties and their unique features enshrined in colorful gifts of our mother nature. Aside from floral exibition you can also sooth your culinary palate with curry flavors and drinks galore at the bar. There is also pottery and inexpensive flower sprout for sale.

We enjoy walking barefoot on the grass and the pebbles path. Here is a picture of Sayaka stretching leg on a green grass spot beside the petit lake.


At one o 'clock they are also preparing various Asian dances and performance on a makeshift stage right in the middle of the garden.
There we about a hundred seats laid in the row. We sat for a while but later prefer tbe basking under heat of springtime sun.


As you can see below is the picture of a Thai dancer. She also recount about her origin in Sumatera and how their family escaped the recent Tsunami.


Another show of Thai dance emphasizing on the movement of the fingers. Big smiles never escape their faces.


The third show is fan dance. I don't know why I can appreciate it now while I couldn't when I was kid.


Sayaka at the end of the tunnel. This is a kind of tree from Indonesia that wrapped the host tree and render it dead, therefore dubbed as the "strangler".


I enjoyed this show the most. The original Japanese Taiko with a lot of improv made by these junior hischool girls. I forgot the name of their group. Shall provide detail later.


And the last show was the play of Goto, a string intrument from Japan. I was moved when they played "Subaru", the only song that I can connect and feel its melody and rythme thru the blast and trill of the stringed goto.


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