Singaporeans needn’t head to Taiwan to catch a sky lantern pageant this yr as Sentosa will play host to the inaugural Singapore Sky Lantern Pageant.
Held at Palawan Inexperienced on Feb 21, the family-friendly event lets attendees marvel at glowing sky lanterns in the direction of the night sky. It goes to even have an array of native and worldwide meals, as well as to reside reveals which embody a music pageant and cultural effectivity.
There’s a caveat, though. In distinction to most sky lantern festivals that permit lanterns fly freely, the Singapore Sky Lantern Pageant has lanterns tethered to the underside by means of 60m-long strings. That is per Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) guidelines which state that “the free launch of sky lanterns simply is not allowed in Singapore” and “tethered sky lanterns can solely be launched between 7pm to 7am the next day” on weekdays.
As such, the lanterns (which can be biodegradable and fabricated from oiled paper) will keep tethered to the underside and float throughout the sky for five to 10 minutes until the candles in them extinguish. Thereafter, the lanterns is perhaps launched once more to the underside by attendees. There is perhaps 5 batches of lanterns to be launched.
The event will run from 3pm to 12am, with the lantern launch occurring at 7.30pm. Tickets to the inaugural Singapore Sky Lantern Pageant worth S$50, excluding reserving fees, and is perhaps purchased at Eventbrite. College college students can ranking the tickets at merely S$25.
Within the meantime, Singaporeans in search of to get their restore of breathtaking mild exhibits throughout the night can head to the Light To Night festival which is in a position to end on Feb 8.