Oil lamps light up Raya celebration in villages


Muhammad Ammar Asyraf Mamat Zaki Mia, five, (left) and his sister Nurul Syakila, 12, playing sparklers in their house compound decorated with oil lamps. — Bernama

KUALA NERUS: The desire to relive the nostalgic charm of Hari Raya Aidilfitri of the past era inspired the residents of several villages here to decorate their compounds with hundreds of oil lamps.

They arranged it in all sorts of shapes and design, replicating boats and cars, creating a mini-park, utilising unused old bicycles and Vespa motorcycles which lit up the villages, especially with the use of damar raya, a tall oil lamp made of coconut shells stacked up to 4m high.

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