Glimpses from a Dinner in Paradise: Matsue Vogel Park

Earlier this month I had been to exotic Japan again; to Matsue, the capital of Shimane Prefecture, this time to attend the 3rd Asian Joint Workshop on Thermophysics and Fluid Science. It is an international workshop held once in two years, related to engineering thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, heat and mass transfer and combustion. The work shop is sponsored by the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics (IET), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing Society of Thermophysics and Energy Engineering, Turbomachinery Society of Japan (TSJ) and the Korean Fluid Machinery Association (KFMA). This time the workshop was jointly organized by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Saga University, Japan and the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Matsue College of Technology, Japan. The welcome dinner for the delegates was arranged at the Matsue Vogel Park. We arrived at the Vogel park in the evening in three chartered buses.

At the door we were received by .......

.....special security guards ......

the delegates are dumbstruck....

so am I...

are we in paradise?!

and we moved in...

through the walkways...

into the flowerbeds....

and the flower walls...

and the floating flowers....

and the flower garlands.....

and the myriads of colors....

to the dinner tables....

to have the delicious....

and sumptuous....

Japanese delicacies....

we didn't feel like leaving....

A flower that fell on 'Little Panda's hand :)

Hope you liked it.....

so see you soon with more :)

I have two videos of the park. But unfortunately the videos can not be uploaded to you-tube from Korea because of the Korean real-name verification law. Hope to upload the videos at a later date :)