It’s a long weekend in Edmonton and I visited the Heritage festival at the William Hawrelak Park today.

It was for sure bigger than the Multi Cultural Festival in Halifax with a lot of different cuisines from different countries. I enjoyed some of the live music and dance performances, food, and cultural exhibits and should mention the Knock School of Irish Dancers,they were amazing.

I had a chance to try some chapman’s fudge icecream at the festival and langos from the Hungarian tent .The langos is simply a round and flat bread-puff (made of, flour,butter,yeast and salt ) deep-fried in oil and garnished with powdered sugar. It was too oily for me after a few bites though,but the icecream was Ok.

Here are some pictures from the Heritage Festival.

I visited the Sri Radha Govindaji Temple today, and the temple is preparing for their annual ratha yatra this year on August 31 from 11am to 2p.m .Don’t know how they did it last year but I guess it will be great event.

The temple has bought in idols specially designed from puri and I had a darshan of lord jagannath, balarama  and subhadra.

So ,if you are visiting Edmonton do visit the temple and join in for the chariot festival in August.

If you are visiting Edmonton and interested in shopping;do go to the west edmonton hall.

If I righly put it ,it’s a mecca of shops with a food court, galaxyland,waterworld and cineplexes etc. There are about 800 shops in the mall and one can spend  a whole day

Here are some pictures.

This was my first time visit to this event at the Bharathiya Cultural Society, and must say it was excellent.It was nice to listen to Anuradha Paudwal and Rajinder Jain.