{"id":8665,"date":"2015-12-07T23:20:39","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T15:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/?p=8665"},"modified":"2015-12-11T15:27:29","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T07:27:29","slug":"laos-2015-hot-air-balloon-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/?p=8665","title":{"rendered":"Laos 2015: Hot Air Balloon"},"content":{"rendered":"

On our way from Luang Prabang to Vientaine we stayed two nights in Vang Vieng<\/a>. If you have been in Laos, you may ask, why Vang Vieng? Isn’t that the notorious backpacker village where young people\u00a0get drunk (and high), like Torremolinos in Spain?<\/p>\n

True, but it is also situated in a beautiful karst landscape with numerous caves. And you can make hot air balloon trips there! \u00a0Expensive, but we had never done that before and we would like to experience it once in our life..:-).<\/p>\n

At 4 pm we were picked up from our hotel and taken to the field where they were already busy preparing the balloons. Two this time, each can take\u00a0eight people. First they blow air in the balloon, and\u00a0after that they start heating the air with a kind of flamethrower. \u00a0Then it is time to enter the basket, not much space for eight people plus\u00a0the skipper, so not easy to take good pictures.<\/p>\n\n\t\t