Thursday, October 29, 2009

Chiang Mai Yi Peng festival

In Thailand they light up the night sky with hot air lanterns to celebrate:

(Via Neatorama)

4 comments:

Melissa said...

Beautiful.

TomboCheck said...

Indeed Melissa. I bet it's a trip in real life.

Daly said...

That's really cool!! I'd hate to be there when they catch on fire and fall down.

TomboCheck said...

Daly - I wonder how many of them do catch. I would imagine that most of them just run out of combustible fuel, and fall back to earth sans-fire. There has to be a percentage of them that do become fiery death-balls though, and those would be terrifying.