Budapest's Chinatown comes alive with Spring Festival celebrations

Budapest's Chinatown was bursting with life Saturday despite the winter chill as vibrant colors, music and aroma of traditional Chinese delicacies filled the streets during a two-day Spring Festival celebration.

The "Happy Chinese New Year" Temple Fair also brought together thousands of visitors, performers, artisans, and dignitaries to welcome the upcoming Chinese lunar new year, or the Year of the Snake, which falls on Jan. 29.

This is the first celebration since UNESCO inscribed "Spring Festival, social practices of the Chinese people in celebration of the traditional new year" on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.