Cinematic Yi Peng Festival Video - By 8milesfromhome

[8milesfromhome]

One of Chiang Mai's most famous events. Filmed in our cinematic style. Yi Peng Sky Lantern Festival

10000 Floating Sky Lanterns released in unison to signify bad luck floating away. Find out the dates for this years festival and more here: http://8milesfromhome.com/post/96863534092/yi-peng-festival-dates-2014

[Stokakrishna]

10000 pieces of garbage flying everywhere

who will clean this up?

[Rockhopper]

They are bio-degradable.

[IsaanUSA]

Cool video but it is sad to see that Thai people do not attend this event. Chiang Mai's most famous event overrun by tourists

[hans d]

...and what about the air traffic sercurity?

[zeichen]

"They are bio-degradable."

Paper parts yes, but the metal, and wax parts no.

You obviously don't have a house near CM. They make an awful mess. I have also seen them set roofs on fire.

[AnotherOneAmerican]

Cool video but it is sad to see that Thai people do not attend this event. Chiang Mai's most famous event overrun by tourists

It's almost all Thais, very few foreigners there.

The real event, they change the date every year, and keep it quiet, so only locals can go.

(They do put on a fake event for foreigners later in the month, with a big entry fee)

[IsaanUSA]

Cool video but it is sad to see that Thai people do not attend this event. Chiang Mai's most famous event overrun by tourists

It's almost all Thais, very few foreigners there.

The real event, they change the date every year, and keep it quiet, so only locals can go.

(They do put on a fake event for foreigners later in the month, with a big entry fee)

So this is a fake video? Or this is a video of the fake event?

[AnotherOneAmerican]

So this is a fake video? Or this is a video of the fake event?

The video doesn't seem to show much of anything.

It could be the real event, edited to only show foreigners.

Or the 'fake' event, that only foreigners attend.

I would say it's a video from the 'fake $100 VIP ticket' event, as there aren't all that many lanterns in the sky, and the 'people' shots don't seem to have much in the way of people. But I could easily be wrong, I often am.

Compare it to an amateur video of the real event here, so many people you can't see the ground,

(taken by a Korean lady half way up a tree using her smartphone)

Edited September 22, 2014 by AnotherOneAmerican

[CharlieH]

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Please do not post in Thai script. English is the preferred language when posting please.

[8milesfromhome]

This was the real event guys, it just so happened that we were sitting among thousands of foreigners and couldn't walk around freely due to the amount of people that were there. Plenty of Thais were there too though, I promise :-).