New in 2025 is Dragons Landing, an attraction featuring 12 illuminated dragons, including a striking 100-foot-long “ice and ...

Over 800 hand-made lanterns have been shipped from southern China to northern Virginia for the Chinese Lantern Festival at Roer’s Zoofari, the old Reston Zoo, in Vienna. All the lanterns in the ...

The Chinese Lantern Festival will run from Oct. 1-Dec. 31 except for these dates: Oct. 28; Nov. 4, 11, 18, 25 and 28; and Dec. 2, 9, 16 and 23-25. The event takes place rain or shine.

Experience these magical ones around SoCal The Water Lantern Festival takes place across the country. In SoCal, it’s happening at Lake Gregory in Crestline and Elm Grove Beach in Lake Elsinore.

Whether you attend a lantern festival to release pent-up emotions, send a message to a loved one you’ve lost or cast a prayer into the great beyond, the experience can become a quiet moment of ...

Buddhists carry lanterns in a parade during the Yeon Deung Hoe, or Lotus Lantern Festival ahead of the Buddha's birthday on May 5, in downtown Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, April 26, 2025.

Lanterns are placed before a parade during the Yeon Deung Hoe, or Lotus Lantern Festival ahead of the Buddha's birthday on May 5, at Dongguk University in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, April 26, 2025.

Lanterns are placed before a parade during the Yeon Deung Hoe, or Lotus Lantern Festival ahead of the Buddha's birthday on May 5, at Dongguk University in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, April 26, 2025.

This year, as in the previous nine years, lanterns sent from Shanghai have played a significant role in the Taipei festival, blending traditional Chinese paper-cut art with modern cityscape designs.