Night of 2007 Lights -- Lantern Festival

I went to the Lantern Festival in Deer Lake Park with a friend last night. This is the first time I joined Lantern Festival in Vancouver. It is really fun!

When we got there, the drum circle already started. Too bad, I had a workshop to attend during the daytime so we missed part of the festival.

But luckily we had chance to see the beautiful sunset on top of Deer Lake. It is breath taking!

There is a very large lantern labyrinth with lots of people having fun inside.

And there is shadow puppet show as well. This is the first time I see this preformed. It is amazing!

We walked around to look at different lanterns before we sat down and chatted while we watching the procession going around us along with the drumbeats. It is a very cool night. One lady came by gave us a candle because she said it is lantern festival, every body should have a lantern. Most of the people, especially kids, have lanterns with them. It reminds me the moon festival in China when I was a little girl.


The most wonderful part of the night is the fireshow. I saw fireshow a few times before, but this one is the most amazing one and involved the most performers.

I really enjoyed the night!