Lantern Being Launched
We kept seeing these eerie floating lights in the sky since our first day here. I was convinced they were aliens, the way they would fly around and appear and disappear (Dev kept telling me they were fireworks, but what kind of fireworks stay lit and floating for 20 minutes?). Last night we finally found the source, vendors selling the lanterns on the beach. They were a magical sight, watching people launch them over the water and seeing them mystically float up to the others in the sky.
A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more 
