While the word "lantern" may evoke images of red lanterns drifting skyward, like those in Taiwan's Shifen, the lanterns found at the Taoyuan festival more closely resemble the massive floats of Nebuta ...

The world's largest sky lantern festival, RISE, returns to the Mojave Desert October 3-5, 2025, celebrating its 10th ...

Blank Park Zoo is having a glow up — literally. Chinese lanterns shaped like animals, insects and plants take over for the 2025 Wild Lights Festival.

20,000 hand-lit lanterns, each carrying messages of hope, remembrance, and dreams, rising in unison into the night sky. This is not a festival where you simply watch—it’s one you create.

Silence fell for a split second before the 18-metre main lantern ... light show, scheduled to be held between June 28 and July 13. A special event for tourists on package tours provided by Japanese ...

The fire festival offers a great opportunity for that. Known as “Chaharshanbe Souri” in Farsi, the festival comes in the hours just before the Wednesday before Nowruz, which is the Persian New Year.

Saturday night: Blank Park Zoo, 7401 S.W. Ninth St., Des Moines, kicks off its Wild Lights Festival with nearly 50 handcrafted, larger-than-life illuminated Asian lanterns. This year’s festival ...