8,000 Chinese Lanterns over Poland

in Random | June 26th, 2011 5 Comments

Last Tuesday, the residents of Poznan, Poland set a world record when they released 8,000 Chinese lanterns into the sky to mark the shortest night of the year — or what’s otherwise called Midsummer Night. The video above lets you see the lanterns in full flight. The image below offers a close-up view of a lantern before heading into the night sky…

via @pourmecoffee


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  1. Pat says . . . | June 27, 2011 / 4:39 am

    The *shortest*???

  2. Kristina says . . . | June 27, 2011 / 8:11 am

    Pat – Yeah, It’s summer in the northern hemisphere (for all I know you live in Australia), so this time of year it would be the longest day and the shortest night.

  3. Vasilina says . . . | June 27, 2011 / 4:16 pm

    They tried to release 12000 lanterns in my homecity (Khabarovsk, Russia) on May,28, but they couldn’t and as I can see on the video, in Poznan this was better than in Khabarovsk.

  4. kimia kline says . . . | July 4, 2011 / 1:38 am

    this just blew my mind, AMAZING!

  5. Fundacja ARS says . . . | May 14, 2012 / 3:23 am

    This year we wait for you during the most romantic night in Poland on the 21st of June to beat Guinness World Record. See you in Poznan!
    http://www.facebook.com/NocKupaly2012

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