"It's like being in a video game! Like Tron! But with more colors!"
"And music!"
"Yeah! And music! "
"And stars that glow! Like a video game!"
"I already said that!"
My kids just rambled on and on in complete amazement under the pulsing hues of Ayala Triangle's Festival of Lights. This is Ayala's yearly Yuletide offering, and we finally found the time to go! So excuse me if I sound like an excited child on Christmas morn in this post. Or, a totally tripped-out hippie.
It's a concert. Not just your garden variety array of pretty blinking lights on a mall wall. These lights dance in tune to Christmas songs in spectacular choreography. Huge lit stars throb to a beat and then die down to make way for darkness... only to be interrupted by the laser-like lights that start flashing in as more lights above the towering trees vibrate with varying degrees of radiance.
The awesome thing is that you can walk right into this concierto. Be among the pulsating lights and sounds, and feel like you're part of something magical. It's an enchanting feeling. And yes, a kind of
'you have to be there' thing.
The disarming display ends with the giant stars folding and closing like morning glories falling into a well-deserved sleep. Music becomes a soft, lilting hum. And then you are surrounded by gleaming white tear drop lights falling all about you. Sudden serenity. A lovely segue from the energetic, enigmatic show that was.
It's a free attraction that runs from 6 to 8 nightly all throughout the season. If you haven't seen it, believe me, you'll need to. Honestly, who doesn't need to experience magic nowadays?
The Festival of Lights at the Ayala Triangle. So much like the Bermuda Triangle, you do get lost in it.
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