Ï New Year’s tree in Ashgabat lit up
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New Year’s tree in Ashgabat lit up

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The New Year’s tree in Ashgabat lit up with myriads of colourful lights.

This year the venue for the New Year is the square in front of the where the Älem Cultural and Entertainment Centre, where a 37-metre beautiful New Year’s tree topped with an octactinal star with inscription – 2013 and a fairytale town have sprung up. Fluffy snow-covered New Year’s trees have grown up under the bright colour of ‘cosmic’ illumination, fountains play with sparkling colours, the heroes of favourite fairytales and cartoons as well as children dressed in colourful costumes sing and dance in a ring around the New Year’s tree.

Thousands young citizens of Ashgabat, popular musicians, theatre and circus artists as well as young singers gathered together near the New Year’s tree waiting for New Year’s tale and favourite fairytale heroes.

Accompanied by artful dzhigits riding beautiful Ahalteke horses, the phaeton with Ayaz baba, Garpamyk and their friends heads to the State Puppet Theatre and the World of Turkmen Fairytales amusement park. The spectators of the festivities are numerous guests and people of the Turkmen capital who joyfully greet the carnival procession on the way to the New Year’s tree.

Then the bright carnival procession appears on the square in front of the main New Year’s tree of the country. The show involving theatre artists from all over the country, young musicians and dancers, popular singers and children’s dance group from Ashgabat starts in the fairytale town. Children dressed in colourful costumes greeted Ayaz baba, Garpamyk and their friends with merry songs and poems.

Ayaz baba waves a wand and the beautiful New Year’s tree starts to sparkle as children wish. After that the New Year’s trees on the main squares in towns and villages of our country light up with colourful lights where the New Year festivities take place, poems and music are heard and happy children sing and dance in a ring. The first show around the main New Year’s tree of the country is concluded with a big concert of the children’s chorus and popular singers who perform merry songs.