How to light a Sky Lantern

i love these it was so cool i was on holiday in thailand phuket potaong beach and i was staying at a new hotel gracenlands i think and it was the suncron festible and they took everyone at the hotel and lite about 500 of these and they all went up it was quit a sight

lol thailand has the best names. I used to ride sky train past mochit and thonglo. lol gotta love em.

thats how people do it in colombia if you want to see some just tipe "globos envigado"

20 mins whats the fun on that, you should just take off the thing where you burn it and put some gray cotton with candle wax wraped around it and cover it with petrolium and it can staiy longer in the sky for like 4 to 7 hours

Once they have gone up they burn out after around 20mins, the lantern falls as a parachute and the paper is biodigradable.

"One of the many, many paradoxes of the exquisitely mad Thai culture. It's a wonderful spectacle of light when the Khom Fai are released, freighted with metaphorical meaning; and then they lose altitude and come down once everyone is drunk or sleeping or both; they land on the traditionally wooden houses and burn them down. Every year, hundreds of houses go up in flames and many die. The classic Thai response to this chain of events is, "how sad, this bad luck."

Of course they can be dangerous. They've been the cause of bush fires, forest fires, house fires and deaths, that's why they're illegal to launch in certain areas at certain times of the year. Think with your head before you get all emotional and defensive over perfectly normal and intelligent comments

"Yes, if you are retarded and don't handle it with proper care it can be dangerous." I just wanted to put the idiot in his place, it'd be like if went to a NASCAR forum and typed - They Drive to Fast!!!! The dick was asking to get flamed if you ask me.

So to reiterate, you light it FIRE people! If you observe proper fire safety it can be an enjoyable display.

And FYI, i'm pretty sure even sparklers have been responsible for "bush fires, forest fires, house fires and deaths."

Sorry, was having a bad day there, you're right though, they look great and in fact I'm making one. I don't suppose you'd know what I could use (as the fire) that would burn for more than 20 or 30 minutes do you?

Rgdz

maybe drifted cloth in used cooking oil :)