Saturday, March 28, 2009

International Hot Air Balloon Fest 2009


I missed going out to take photos. Since this is the first time Malaysia plays host to the Hot Air Balloon Fest, we decided to go check it out last weekend. It was a really hot hot evening, sun was blaring away. It took us quite fast to get to Putrajaya on the new MEX highway. Once we got there, it was a madhouse. The whole place was jammed pack. I guess everyone had nothing better to do and was all out at the same time. We saw lots of families with kids and also photo enthusiast. We were quite lucky and managed to find parking nearby. We managed to grab a quick bite before the event started. It was supposed to start at 5.45pm but it only started close to 6.30pm.

It’s really cool to see the balloon take off. It did take them a while to get the balloon up and flying away. Was really looking forward to see the Elephant balloon, but was sad that it didn’t manage to take off as it was way too late to fly then. My favorite was the orange balloon J Here’s some of the photo’s I managed to take of the balloons.

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