Im Fluss is an open-air festival that has been organized in Basel for quite some years already and they always have programm for approximately two weeks offering a concert practically every night on a little raft moored just next to the Mittlere Brücke in downtown.The festival starts always on the last week of July.
The audience can sit on the stairs by the river bank or on the restaurant terraces to enjoy the concerts. I really like this festival since it's free and very popular and I always meet there whole lot of people that are usually somehow not so often on the move.
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| Im Fluss, the raft |
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| The river bank |
Bundesfeier
1st of August is the Independence Day of Switzerland. To honor the day city of Basel organizes every year a humongous fireworks spectacle among other things. They bring two barges to the Rhein near the Mittlere Brücke and both barges shoot in sync like there was no tomorrow. This is bigger than any New Year and widely know also outside Switzerland.
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| Prelude: Fireworks by Chill am Rhy restaurant |
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| Anticipated waiting |
Most of Basel and whole lot of visitors all come to the river to observe the spectacle. At the same time the open-air festival Im Fluss is also going on, so they offer usually two bands to entertain the audience while waiting for the fireworks.
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Roli Frei & the Soulful Desert |
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| Hundreds of little lanterns were released |
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| - A benefit for Camerun organized by FAIRMED |
Since I was also this year setting the equipment up for the festival, I was privileged to go see the fireworks from the raft. This is a very cool option since the river bank is totally jam-packed with people and you have to elbow your way in and crane your neck to see something. This you can see in a photo above, I guess. Instead of this, I could go on the raft where there was only something like 20 people and I could lay back on the floor. Real chill!!!
Albeit it's bit crowded by the river, it's definately worth seeing, at least once in your life if you happen to be in the neigborhood. This was for me the first time I saw it properly, previous years I've been somewhere further away. But this time, I was really in the heart of it all, soooo coooool.
This year the show lasted something like 25 minutes with enormously big rockets. It seems to get bigger every year... I would be really interested to know how much they invest into this =)
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| One of the two barges, some 30m away from the raft |
Below you can see a little fraction of the show.
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