I always love to do an illuminated light trail during the festive season to help cope with the fact that the days are shorter and darker, and this also helps to get into a festive feeling. I visited Windsor Great Park Illuminated this year after having been for a visit in 2022 at the beginning of January. (You can see my visit from 2022 here: Windsor Great Park Illuminated). Keep scrolling down to see my photographs of Windsor Great Park Illuminated.
When we arrived, we were greeted with a large area of rides and food stalls, and this area marked the entrance and exit of the venue as it was next to the parking. The route this year was backwards from the route that I did for the 2021-2022 season. We first headed down the road with illuminated poles on both sides, over a bridge with the "Windsor" sign illuminated.
Off to the left, the path continued with multi-coloured trees.
The trees were lit in rainbow colours, and some glowing orbs in changing rainbow shades were overhead. As we walked, the "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" song was being played.
We finally arrived to the edge of the lake where we could see the illuminated trees on both sides, and we saw an illuminated art sculpture inside the lake. It looked like flames and had an orange glow.
We continued on the walk around, and the next part reminded me of "Narnia" with various lamp posts, a large clock, and there was fake snow falling.
Further ahead, we saw signs for Santa, and we saw the man himself and his reindeer with Rudolph leading the way.
Finally, we came to the middle of the trail, which was set up as an elf party with elf DJ and disco balls. Some people were dancing, and this was a place to get some food and drink. I got a waffle on a stick.
When we continued the trail, we saw an illuminated white reindeer walking through the forest.
And the trees had an eerie glow around their trunks.
We came to another light sculpture with pulsating orbs that changed pattern and colour, and this tunnel of orbs we walked through.
This eventually led to an illuminated area with bright lights that changed pattern and colour, and a smoke machine emitted lights that shone onto the smoke and created awesome effects.
The trail continued around with bright trees illuminiated in multiple colours and a wave of pools that illuminated like a road, changing colour and simulating movement.
We arrived at another stop with a couple of food stalls and marshmallows, and this offered some rest where my friend's daughter enjoyed some marshallows. After the break, we continued around and watched an illuminated tree with pattern changes set to "The Twelve Days of Christmas" song.
There's always a tunnel of light, and we walked through this.
There were several illuminated sculptures around as well with photograph opportunities.
We then arrived at the glowing fields of orbs set to music. This was the same as my visit at the start of 2022, and it is really beautiful as the orbs change colour and pattern set to music.
We then got to the other side of the lake again where we watched a fountain set to music with different colours and patterns.
This led up back around toward the exit.
The last illumination was a face onto a tree, and it spoke to us about the forest being old and tired and left with a parting farewell.
At the end, we enjoyed some food, and my friend's daughter went on a ride. I had Chick'n'Sours, and you may remember my visit here: Chick'n'Sours in Haggerston.
Windsor Great Park Illuminated has been going for a few years now, and it improved since my last visit. I enjoyed my visit.
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