Hotels-live.com - Crowds of people took to the streets of Singapore yesterday and today as the country held its 43rd annual Chingay Parade. Boasted as the largest street performance and float parade in Asia, thousands of performers dressed in bright color

Hotels-live.com - Crowds of people took to the streets of Singapore yesterday and today as the country held its 43rd annual Chingay Parade. Boasted as the largest street performance and float parade in Asia, thousands of performers dressed in bright colors, and elaborately decorated floats passed through this year’s main venue at the F1 Pit Building. The Chingay Parade originally began as a celebration of Lunar New Year, but over time the event has become more of a way to appreciate the cultural diversity that resides within Singapore. This year’s street procession is themed “We love SG” to mark Singapore’s 50th anniversary as an independent country, and more performers and dancers have turned out than ever before to celebrate the occasion. “The local community enjoys watching the parade and taking photos of the vibrant floats, dancing dragons, prancing lions, stilt walkers, wushu masters, performers of different races in their traditional costumes and fireworks,” says Ivan Kuek (@phonenomenon), a local coffee purveyor who photographed the festivities. “I remember attending Chingay back in the late 80s when I was a little kid. This is my second year in a row that I’m attending the parade at the F1 Pit Building, and it keeps getting better and better as the years go by.” For more photos and videos from this year’s event, browse the #Chingay2015 and #IAmAtChingay2015 hashtags and tap the blue location text above. Photo by @blurboy1985 @Hotelslive by instagram instagram.com/p/zpdqweBQV0/ Follow instagram @Hotelspaschers instagram.com/hotelspaschers and @Voyageslive #Twitter #TeamFollowBack #Instagram #Voyage #Travel #TFB #FollowTrick www.facebook.com/125048940862168/photos/a.801853623181693... via Hotels-live.com www.facebook.com/pages/p/125048940862168 #Retweet #TeamFollowBack #F4F #TityFollowTrain via http://flic.kr/p/rp9WNq