Friday, November 28, 2008

Thai Lantern Festival

Just an interesting cultural event I discovered on YouTube. What do you think? It would be pretty cool if Athens had an event like this.

17 comments:

Max Jacob said...

We have found the primary cause of global warming...

Anonymous said...

This was really cool but where do they all end up?

GAITHER, Glen E said...

seeing all these light balloons or candle kites as they were called in the 19th century in new york makes me wonder one thing...where is the fire department to take care of the collateral damage for when these candles fall back to earth.

Lia said...

pretty.. seems dangerous.

chelsie said...

Very interesting and gorgeous. I would like to know the point in the lanterns though. Is it religious?

Ian LeSage said...

I'm surprised the Fire Marshall had nothing to say about this.

SaraE said...

I thought that the idea looked pretty cool. Watching all the lanterns rise was beautiful, a very unique festival.

mnewman said...

The tai lantern festival was very intriguing to me. I wish i could've been there in person to see it!

Anonymous said...

I thought that the video was really cool. It looks like something fun to do but it kinda looks like it could be dangerous. What happens when the candles fall back down?

Kyle said...

That was interesting but where do they go? Thailand would be a cool place to visit.

Anonymous said...

The Thai Lantern Festival was really different, I have never seen anything like it before. It would have been cool to be there.

Anonymous said...

This festival seems like it would be amazing to experience. All of the lanterns floating into the sky was really cool. I think that if Athens celebrated this festival, it would join the whole campus together as one.

e-wiets08 said...

Pretty cool event.... Unless you end up on fire instead of the balloon.

Serena said...

This would be interesting to watch, but I don't understand what happened to the latern's after.

Nick Stallard said...

Well I must say, these people seem really excited about small hot air balloons! I doubt any of them have ever been in a real hot air balloon. It's really not that exciting, in fact the only time I remember hot air balloons being exciting was when I was 8 and Alvin and the Chipmunks had used them in there movie to fly around the world so that they may deliver dolls to third world crime lords. Woo!

Thomas Taney said...

and i thought i was the one who liked to light things on fire...

Kattie said...

The lanterns' festival was very beautiful and dazzling.