Translation of lantern in Spanish

At noon we drove back to the tiny airport near the city and a few moments later we were already in the skies. The flight to Saigon, today's name Ho Chi Minh city, lasted more or less one hour.
And off we went. It took a us only a few minutes to reach the village. Funnily my wife fell asleep as she was still tired of the flight. It has been more than twenty eight hours without sleep.
Dinner was nothing special in this town and the restaurant wasn't either. Most waiters and the owner himself were more interested in Chile's qualifying soccer game than in their guests.