A girl standing above the crowd with the support of an elaborate rig of hidden metal rods during the Bun Festival parade on Cheung Chau Island in Hong Kong yesterday, the last day of a five-day celebration. The most important festival native to Cheung Chau, the Bun Festival was the celebration of the end of a plague in historic times, but today it is simply the highlight festival of the year for the island, with many visitors from Hong Kong and all over the world arriving to enjoy the celebrations. It is held on the same day as the Buddha’s birthday each year, which is defined according to the Chinese lunar calendar as the eighth day of the fourth lunar month.SD-Agencies