Love & Freedom: EUROPE TRIP - LISBOA PORTUGAL 07 -FREEDOM FESTIVAL

AUG 16 TO 20TH 2007 5days of non stop psychedelic trance dance party by the lake. 1st psytrance party we went to in Europe. It was AWESOME!!! Imagine... party by the nature with friendly folks and even kids. What more can we ask for?

Lesson that i learned from this trip is... we should study well where the party is located before booking a hostel/hotel because this was our first time to such parties and we weren't prepared for any camping and thot staying in a hostel would be just fine. But little did we know.. actually the party is far far away from lisboa town. During august, portugal was having some public holiday and the streets were really empty.. empty streets and shops are all closed...

Finally, we decided to abandon all our stuff, took our handbag and head for the airport to ask for help so that we can get to Freedom festival. The airport customer service was really helpful and directed us to the bus interchange where we took a bus to the party location.

PIX: Freedom festival 2007

PIX: MAP and bus ticket, freedom festival handband, me in lisboa town, little town located 20mins away from the party.

**the only way to the party from this little town was to take taxi or either you hook up with some local party goers so that they could give you a ride. This town is deserted and quiet as well.

PIX: 1st night at Freedom festival, chill out zone

PIX: Lighting and decos, me sitting there waiting for my coffee (pls note that there are no coffee with milk at the parties. Just espresso). During night time, the weather is really really cold and we did not bring any clothes with us at all and were freezing our asses off.

PIX: Friends that we met at the party, me and mabel finally got to buy the cheapest "sweater" that we found which cost about euro 20, me sleeping in the chill out area.

**Nunu our dear friend was really sweet by offering us their tent to bunk in the 2nd day but by then we already got a hotel room about 15mins away from the party location.

PIX: OLIVETREEDANCE my fav at the live performance tent. Pls visit http://www.myspace.com/olivetreedance

VIDEOS: olivetreedance 1, olivetreedance 2

PIX: Freedom festival in the day, mmm.. my lunch (chicken, chips and rice), kids and some folks sitting by the hammock which mabel had set up, look at how clean the party place is.

**What i love about Freedom Festival, unlike our singapore zoukout, all party goers are people who don't just dump their trash everywhere they go. During the 2nd day when i just woke up, i could see party goers going around picking up trash and putting it into the correct recycle bins. How nice is that?