All of the Lights

Global Winter Wonderland is new in the Bay Area this year. Located in Great America's parking lot are many beautiful structures and characters that represent the Christmas Holidays and famous landmarks throughout the world.

Produced by International Culture Exchange Group, these structures are made from everyday recyclable materials. Almost every structure on the festival grounds is a Chinese lantern. From their brochure, 'the iron structures were bent and welded into a variety of shapes and sizes. The crew wove and attached the internal lighting elements before the silk, each piece cut and sewn by hand based on the design, and glued into place and then embellishments were added.' Other structure materials were teacups, soup spoons, CDs and recycled cans and bottles.

Phoenix

The Phoenix was made out of porcelain bowls, plates, and spoons.

Phoenix Treasure Vase

This structure was made by filling little apothecary bottles with colored water.

Tree of Life: The tree tops were made out of recycled plastic bottles.

Statue of Liberty

Eiffel Tower

Golden Gate Bridge

Dragon Boat was made out of recycled CDs.

Grandma Ma with all her grandchildren at the Peacock Bazaar