Every month there is a lantern festival for the full moon. Luckily, February’s festival was scheduled for a day during our visit. In the old town everything is dark but the lanterns on boats and at stalls. You could pay to go on a boat down the river to see the floating lanterns but we did not cause you could also get a good view of them from the land. Also, they were pretty expensive. The festival is packed with tourists and vendors selling goods and food. My mom and Cleo got jade rollers which are supposed to help with anti-aging facial stuff. They also got mango cakes and me, Denise, and my dad shared a donut.

These are floating lanterns going down the river. Me and Denise both released floating lanterns but unfortunately they got stuck in the corner of the bridge. The lanterns were 10,000 VND which is about 60 cents CAD. we released them with a long bamboo stick with a bowl on the end. When you release the lanterns you make a wish. I hope mine comes true, probably not :).

 This is one of the boats you could take down the river. I think that this picture is beautiful. Photo Credit: Cleo Haber.

This is a bunch of pop-up cards that a stall was selling. I wanted to buy one but unfortunately we did not buy one. Cleo took this photo on her camera. Do you have a favourite card?  This is our floating lanterns stuck in the corner of the bridge burning out. Me and Denise’s lanterns are the ones at the very bottom of this photo side by side. The candle lasted for longer than I expected.