Lantern Festival in Pingxi

Pingxi is a small town in Taipei County who hosts a huge lantern festival every year at the end of Chinese New Year. There are booths with food, souvenirs and lanterns to buy. You can buy a big paper lantern and you write your wish on the lantern. Then you light "god money" and let your lantern float up into the sky. Jacquelyn, Tara, Cassandra, Mariah and I all made our wishes and let the lantern fly. It was a really neat experience and we were able to see "special" lanterns being released. There are lots of pictures of the lanterns and a few videos. It was an incredible experience that I'm glad I was able to witness!