Colorful art installations to light up Bogota

Large-than-life installations of Terracotta Warriors and their horses will light up a public park and a square in Colombia's capital Bogota every night from March 11-27, the seventh time these colorful lanterns will go abroad, and mark the opening of the 2016 China-Latin America and Caribbean Year of Culture Exchanges.

All together, there are 80 warrior-inspired installations and two life-size horses. They glow at night in red, blue, yellow, white and pink. The warrior-shaped lanterns have different facial expressions, a take-off on the real Terracotta Warriors unearthed in 1974 in Northwest China's city of Xi'an.

"Colombia is the farthest country our installations have been. They have always been warmly welcomed and loved when they were shown in different countries in the past few years," says Xu Wei, the director of the team that makes the lanterns in Beijing.