Celebrating Yi Peng Nov 6, 2025

Celebrating Yi Peng

What would you wish for if a single lantern could carry your heart"s desire skyward? Tonight, in northern Thailand, the Yi Peng festival offers that chance. This centuries-old Lanna tradition celebrates the 12th lunar month with glowing paper lanterns—khom loi—that are released to honor the Buddha. Each lantern is believed to carry away misfortune and light the way toward a brighter future. Children steady the lantern frames, elders whisper blessings, and the crowd pauses as hundreds of lights drift higher than the trees. Farther south, the same full moon watches over Loy Krathong, a sister festival, where candlelit rafts glide across the water.

© MR. ANUJAK JAIMOOK/Getty Images

palette

Today in History

Nov 6, 2018A truly American monument
Nov 6, 2019Saffron in bloom
Nov 6, 2020Life in the slow lane
Nov 6, 2021World Numbat Day
Nov 6, 2022New York City Marathon
Nov 6, 2023Lake Pehoé, Torres del Paine National Park, Chile
Nov 6, 2024Shi Shi Beach, Olympic National Park, Washington

More Desktop Wallpapers:

Jun 29, 2021An island hopper s paradise
Apr 30, 2021The Spirit of Harlem by Louis Delsarte
May 26, 2022Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve in Costa Rica
Aug 11, 2020Sea fireflies at the seashore
Mar 30, 2024Brown-throated three-toed sloth in cecropia tree, Costa Rica
Mar 30, 2020Spread some love with Bing
Aug 15, 2023Piazza IX Aprile, Taormina, Sicily, Italy
Aug 15, 2021Swim city
Feb 11, 2025Yungang Grottoes, Shanxi, China
Apr 17, 2019Happy birthday to the Peak!
Aug 1, 2021Welcome to Scotland s garden
Nov 21, 2024Lion cubs, South Africa
Feb 8, 2022Extraterrestrial Culture Day
May 18, 2019A ‘city’ within Valencia
Oct 31, 2019Protect your neck
Jan 8, 2021Take this for a spin...
Aug 17, 2024International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend
Sep 23, 2024Sea Otter Awareness Week
Apr 12, 2023Earth seen from the International Space Station
May 2, 2022Pamukkale, Turkey
Jun 4, 2026Snowy egret preening, central Florida
Sep 29, 2018Vietnam’s new bridge deserves a big hand
Aug 6, 2022San Francisco Bay salt flats
Jul 1, 2022Tour de France
Mar 16, 2021Why does this panda cub look so happy?
Feb 6, 2023Fiordland National Park, New Zealand
Apr 16, 2025Anniversary of Natural Bridges National Monument, Utah
Dec 29, 2022Silver-studded blue butterflies
Jun 3, 2024World Bicycle Day
Apr 26, 2025Redwood National and State Parks, California