Copenhagen “Distortion 2011” Travel Photos
Copenhagen is a vibrant city with excellent nightlife across each and every corner. During 1st weekend in June, Danish are coming out to town to celebrate nightlife with whole evening of street dance parties, mobile clubbing and contemporary art festival to welcome the arrival of hot climate of Summer. They called it the Copenhagen Distortion festival 2011. This 5-day-middle-size-street-festival stretching from first Thursday to Sunday of each June, is organized by the NUS/NUS company, a non-profit cultural event organization of Copenhagen. The festival is held on each day in different areas of Copenhagen with streets being closed for the event.
I have long heard of it and it was one of my reason to visit Copenhagen on my Europe Travel last month. I was lucky enough to have the 1st celebration of 1st June in the city centre around Stroget area, on my first day in Copenhagen. After checking into our hostel nearby, I grabbed my cameras out to take some travel photos for the festival.
Crowds started to draw into the Stroget and surrounding areas since 6PM. Jean and I were there strolling down street after street enjoying people watching with Tuborg in both of our hands. There are kiosks selling crepes and waffles all over the place. Not to mention mobile bar selling beers, mostly local such as Carlsberg and Tuborg.
Each club or bar has its own theme or idea of advocacy, as we saw groups of Danish dressed up differently and marched towards their spots of action. Some are dressed up as movie characters, death bodies, ballet dancers, and so on.
Not only crowds but bicycles as well were seen all over the streets. Copenhagen is one of the city outside China with the most cyclists around.
Everyone seemed to be having a great time in this festival of Copenhagen Distortion 2011. We enjoyed our time there as well, albeit it’s our first ever evening in Copenhagen. Here are some of the other photos that I captured in the festival, before having too much alcohol in my stomach and the sky getting darker.
A mobile dance floor set up beside the “Church of Our Lady”. It was still early when I shot this photo. When I got back there later at night, the whole are was packed like h*ll!
Caribbean music and dance show…
Com’on ladies, cheers! (A common homosexual scene in this gays and lesbians friendly city of Copenhagen 🙂 ) This was the last shot I took in the festival as I had to stopped shooting and started drinking! 🙂
Click HERE to view all photos captured in “Distortion 2011” and Copenhagen in full resolution via Flickr.
For more information regarding the Copenhagen Distortion 2011 festival, visit http://www.cphdistortion.dk/
Final words. Even though there were ten’s of thousand people flocking into the area for this celebration and made every streets jammed up, we felt extremely comfortable and safe partying around without any uneasy feeling and bad experience as tourists. Copenhagen is definitely a fun place for nightlife as a traveler. Thumbs up for this!! 🙂 – Travel Feeder, your ultimate photo travel blog
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Cecil Lee
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Really nice to see that you have enjoyed Copenhagen!
- November 30, 2011