New Years Eve in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Every year an estimated 2.5 million people gather on the beach in Copacabana to celebrate the arrival of the New Year.
New Years 2008
The feast awaiting the elephants after the parade at their festival in Surin, Thailand.
Local beauties prepare to dance at the annual Loi Krathong festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Revelers light up the night sky over Chiang Mai, Thailand with hundreds of rice paper lanterns at the annual Loi Krathong festival.
The launching of khom loi (rice paper lanterns) is a family affair in Chiang Mai, Thailand during the annual Loi Krathong festival.
Revelers light up the night sky over Chiang Mai, Thailand with hundreds of rice paper lanterns at the annual Loi Krathong festival.
Young monks are on hand at the annual Loi Krathong festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand to help people launch their rice paper lanterns into the heavens.
Revelers light up the night sky over Chiang Mai, Thailand with hundreds of rice paper lanterns at the annual Loi Krathong festival.
A family gathers at their local Wat to launch a Khom Loi at the annual Loi Krathong festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Thais believe that their troubles and worries are sent away as the rice paper lantern lifts into the heavens.