Footprint behind Thailand’s lantern festival

Thailand's ly kton Lantern Festival attracts thousands of tourists every year from around the world lanterns illuminate the sky of Chang maai on the full moon night in November these tourists spent 24 hours coming from Brazil to join the festival it is really famous in Instagram it's so beautiful you oh my God I have to be there the festival at its spiritual core is the process of showing respect and appreciation to the Buddha through the sky lanterns it is said that one's wishes will come true by floating lanterns in the sky the festival is said to bring about 9 billion yen worth of economic impact in Just 2 days however the festival also leaves a footprint and other issues behind in the City on the night of the festival tourists were floating lanterns and being stopped by local authorities it is forbidden to float lanterns from the city center to prevent fires and disruptions to air traffic however tourists like these ones continue breaking the rules in fact a large scale fire broke out in the city of changmai during the festival last year the crew visited the site of the fire local authorities are still investigating the cause of fire but they have indicated that it might have been the lanterns from the festival a resident nearby said that she suspects the cause was a lantern she also said that authorities might not acknowledge the fire was caused by a lantern for the festival more than 500,000 tourists visit the city that is a home to 1.7 million people in Just 2 days trash is only collected around the bins and littered garbage are left behind we filming crew went further into the suburbs trash is collected in the inner city but the ones that fall in the mountains is not some point out that this affects the environment it is not only the Wonders and prosperity the festival brings the illuminating lanterns cast a dark shadow over the locals lives my