Loi Krathong Festival

Loi Krathong or Yi Peng - as it is called here in Chiang Mai - is a traditional Thai festival held on the full moon of the twelth luna month which is luckily the first weekend of November this year.
The temples are decorated with lights, all the shops are lighting candles just everywhere on the streets. In the evening there is a big parade with decorated cars, people in festive clothes dancing while the parade is making its way to the Ping River.
Everwhere you can buy Khom Loy, which are some sort of fire laterns that drift into the sky (some are crashing though) until you see thousands of red dots of laterns in the night sky instead of stars.