Lotus Lanterns

Sometimes, when you travel, you just get lucky. Take this weekend for instance: I rocked into Seoul without a great deal of planning, or indeed any real plans at all, only to find that the annual Lotus Lantern festival, featuring more than 10,000 lanterns, would be trucking down a street near where I was staying. After thousands of people had marched past my vantage point on a subway control box, and the crowd below me had screamed themselves hoarse, the crowd bunched in a huge circle around an outdoor stage and they shot millions of pieces of tiny pink paper into the air as we danced underneath.

Posted in Travel on Tuesday May 2, 2006.