I visited Kingston Lacy, a National Trust property located in Dorset, with a group of friends this past weekend. Kingston Lacy is one of the National Trust properties in the southwest that are decorated for Christmas and have a winter light trail. If you are a regular reader of this blog, you may remember my first visit to Kingston Lacy in early June (An Afternoon at Kingston Lacy (Dorset, England)) or my last post about the Christmas decorations at the house Christmas at Kingston Lacy). The property have been including a winter light trail for the past few years now, and some of my friends have been a couple of times. They said that it was even bigger and better this year.
The light installations this year were inspired by members of the Bankes family who lived at Kingston Lacy house. The lights include an interactive experience where visitors can push a button to light up trees/bushes, and one part of the trail features changing colours of trees set to a soundscape. Japanese lanterns are located in the Acer Glade, and the reds, oranges, and yellows lit up to the obelisk are inspired from desert sun in Egypt.
The colours were fascinating with the above tree-lined walkway set to a soundscape and changing colours.
A bridge was lit up, and along the trees and dotted around this part of the trail were miniature doors.
The colours were very pretty, as you can see in the above photograph.
The winter illuminations take approximately half an hour to walk around, and they are in place until 5th January (excluding Christmas Day and Christmas Eve).
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