While in Thailand we were treated to a beautiful Chinese New Year celebration. Last Sunday night around midnight, the Lunar New Year's Eve, we were sitting overlooking the beach when a group of local Thais came down onto the beach and began lighting what are called Sky Lanterns. As you can see from the photo's below, they are like large tissue paper balloons with a heat source at the bottom and when lit they rise into the sky like hot a hot air balloon. One after one they released them into the sky and they rose thousands of feet until they were tiny little specks until either the oxygen got too thin to feed their fire or they ran out of oil. Very beautiful site and quite a treat for us to see.
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