Another place not to be missed during CNY is the Nan Hua Temple.  The Nan Hua Temple is the largest Buddhist sanctuary in South Africa.  It is situated in the Culture Park suburb of Bronkhorstspruit.

On the Sunday morning, the 1^st day of CNY （大年初一）, we have earlier on planned to drive down to Swaziland Hlane National Park for a two-day getaway.  As Bronkhorstspruit is right on our way to Swaziland, we decided to make a quick stop at the Nan Hua Temple.  Most of our Singaporean friends would also be there.

It was around an hour drive away from Johannesburg.  We arrived there at slightly passed 10 am.  The performance began exactly at 10 am.  By the time when we arrived, the temple was already packed with people.  Once again, we were astounded and overwhelmed by the huge crowds rejoiced in this event and the local Whites that outnumbered the Chinese.  We noticed the same phenomenon at the CNY celebration at the Commissioner Street (the Old Chinatown).  I sensed that the Whites enjoyed themselves as much as we do.  They appreciated the long established Chinese festivals cultures that we inherited.

People were wandering around in the temple, taking pictures, chit-chatting, and enjoying the atmosphere of CNY while waiting for the performance to start.

The performance that they put up was equivalent amazing compare to the CNY celebration held at the Tian Hou Gong （天后宮）back at Kuala Lumpur.  Visitors streamed in to pray, to donate, to witness the lion dance and dragon dance performance.  First, we went in to the hall to pay our tribute to the goddess and made some donation as usual.  We met up with our friends.  Then without further delay, Chen and I quickly made our way to the food stalls.  Almost 80% of the stalls were selling the typical Taiwanese Night Market foods.  While some others were selling the Chinese souvenirs such as paper umbrellas, tea pots, drawings, potteries, clothes, jewelleries and so on.

Buddha statues inside the hall.  We paid our tribute here.

The dragon dance performance after the firecrackers.

The lion dance performance.

As we don’t generally get to savour the Taiwanese food even at Johannesburg, we were drooling over the foods.  We regretted that we came so late and had to squeeze ourselves amid the large crowd to purchase our foods.  I was such a happy girl with food on one hand, drink on another hand and a few more packets of food dangling down from my wrist :-).  Though we promised it was only going to be a quick stop, in the end, we spent around 2 hours there.  The Nan Hua Temple is a worthwhile and heavenly visit during the CNY.

We bought the Salty Rise Pudding from this stall.  I once ate this from a roadside stall at Taiwan and just fell in love with it.

We had the bubble milk teas, the sour jelly drink, spring rolls, deep fried chicken chop and the stir fried oysters on the spot.  In addition, we bought the dumplings, mua ci and wua kuai for our dinner tonight at the Hlane National Park.