A flower show steals the show at Sangai Festival

By A Staff Reporter

IMPHAL | Nov 24

Every visitor at the Sangai Festival Hapta Kangjeibung venue is being overwhelmed by a flower show staged there. The site of this show has become a centre of attraction at the venue.

Eco-Tourism Me which is an NGO located at Purul in Senapati district took the responsibility of this flower show.

Most of the flowers are indigenous but there are some exotic varieties too such as hollow log mosses, American grass, banana tree etc. Despite limitation of space earmarked for the show, the décor and landscaping is exceptional, showcasing hillocks, huts, waterfalls, caves, stones, statues etc.

Talking to IFP, one of the members of Eco-Tourism Me Y. Dyaho said, “We have done this flower show before in our district. Tourism Department approached us to participate in Sangai Festival for the first time and here we are.”

He said all the motifs, to the extent possible, are drawn from hill tribal villages.

Explaining further he said “only two statues were made up of plastic, the rest are only natural things.”

Pointing out the statues, he said one depicts western culture and the other traditional. “The traditional one represents Poumei tribe,” he added.

We keep snakes and tigers inside, and a head-hunter at the exit point of caves. This shows that all of them live together without harming or attacking one another, he said. He further said that people wanted to buy everything on display. But for now we are not ready to sell them. On the last day of Sangai Festival we are planning to put them on sale.

“I really like this flower show. In spite of using a smart phone, I have never taken a photograph in my life. But somehow today I felt the urge to take photograph of everything on display in this room,” a woman in her 60s, greatly impressed by the show, said.

Another viewer said that it is for the first time he saw many of the flowers on display. “This is very unique and it really impressed me,” he said.