![]() After walking a little deeper into the circle, we choose a spot. We can have any spot available in the section. Rise did a great job with the lantern/mat packaging, with the pen attached to the mat, which protects the lanterns. It is getting close to the first lift-off, so we speed-walk over to our section’s lantern station. Then, within the circle, the tiki torches are by far the brightest thing around. Low and behold, after the 5 minute walk from the entrance tent to the event site, it is much darker. I can see the event in the distance, but have trouble believing that it will be dark there. In the parking lot, there are ton of floodlights and it is not that far from the freeway. The staff check our tickets tells us to head to our section to pick up the lanterns. The third time we get up to the entrance, we are able to enter without any issues. Another trip to the car, during which we look at each other and ask how we both missed these details. This time, security tells us we cannot bring blankets into the event. After inhaling a slice of pizza, we try to enter a second time. Excitedly, we skip to the entrance, where security told us that we could not bring in food. I had to fly in later in the day and Rebecca kindly picked up some vegan pizza for us to eat at the event. ![]() We arrived to the Jean Dry Lake Bed/Event Site after it was already dark. There is a lot of foot traffic at the entrance, but beyond that, you will get an amazing view no matter where you are. ![]() Since the gentle breeze is unpredictable, not one section is better than another. When you purchase tickets, you purchase into a section of a large circle. However, it does include your lanterns (2 per person – yay!), a bamboo mat, a pen, and an unassigned tiki torch. ![]() The ticket price does not include parking or the shuttle transportation from Las Vegas. There are food stalls and food trucks around the perimeter of the main circle. You can arrive during the daylight to listen to not well-known bands and there are two scheduled lift-off times – 8:00 and 9:00 pm. It happens over two nights in early October. The Rise Lantern Festival, or Rise Festival, is a lantern release in the desert outside Las Vegas. Read though my post before deciding to go – I am not sponsored by Rise. Here, let’s get into it! (Note: I wrote this post based on my experience attending in 2018, so things may change in future iterations.)Īlso, before we get into it, I did want to let you know that pre-sale tickets are on sale February 1 – 28, then regular tickets go on sale March 1st. But after their first lantern, everyone got a bit wiser and we could the magic of the sky filling up with little glowing and moving dots. It was pretty wild when lift-off of the lanterns happened, especially being being downwind of a very gentle breeze that had any lantern not fully warmed up slowly bounding for us. We attended the Rise Lantern Festival to enjoy the magic of a couple hundred (or thousand?) people releasing lanterns into the night sky. ![]()
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