Flying balloon.. 34 years of adventure in the skies of Luxor

Flying balloon.. 34 years of adventure in the skies of Luxor

When the clock strikes 4.45 am, the Luxor Temple area on the Nile Corniche gets crowded with foreign tourists coming from hotels and floats, while tour guides and representatives of balloon companies set off towards the Nile, boarding river launches heading to the West Bank, waiting for buses and cars.

They are moving in groups to the flying balloon airport near the temple of Queen Hatshepsut in Deir el-Bahari in al-Qarnah.

As soon as the groups reach the airport grounds, its yard turns into a beehive of workers in balloon companies, everyone waits for the civil aviation decision at Luxor International Airport to know the weather from meteorology.

This requires that take off at a temperature not exceeding 35C, and that the weather is free of fog and mist, so that the horizontal visibility is more than 4 km, and the wind speed does not exceed 8 knots, to protect tourists and participants in trips.

Eyes watching and heading towards (the wind vane) with the green flag on top of a building, which determines the direction of the wind, from which the path of the balloon is determined after takeoff.

The balloon worker on the ground begins to pump cold air into it and start