Luxor Hot Air Balloon Review

This was by far the highlight of my trip to Egypt. Seeing the Sunrise and Temples from above are just amazing! If you are in Egypt this activity is definitely a must!

Experienced a hot air balloon project in Luxor, it was really exciting, and the scenery was beautiful. Sitting on the hot air balloon and watching the surrounding scenery, it can really be described as refreshing.

It is said that Egypt's hot air balloon is the cheapest in the world! Before I went, I was worried about safety and checked the accident rate here. It seemed to be lower than Turkey, so I sat at ease! Egyptians often said: "Without Luxor, it is not considered Egypt". This ancient Egyptian capital, built in the 14th century BC, stands on the site of Thebes, the birthplace of ancient Egyptian civilization. The temple of Luxor on the banks of the Nile is numerous, is the world's largest open-air museum, with the reputation of "the city of palaces". The wind blows up dry sand, and the air smells like thousands of years ago. Set off before dawn, enjoy the sunrise view of the Valley of the Emperors on a hot air balloon, and the entire Thebes remains are at your feet, feeling the strong ancient Egyptian atmosphere in the air, while satisfying the sky and the yearning for history, there is no more wonderful way to start a new day.

We set off at 4:30 in the morning, because we played late the night before, so everyone was a little tired. I heard that it was going to be open for more than half an hour, and everyone wanted to close their eyes and rest. I don't know who suddenly found an armored car behind us, and the sleep immediately disappeared. I only knew when I asked, they protected us, everyone was very grateful to them, and I was really relieved. I arrived at the destination without knowing it. Speaking of hot air balloons, I want to go many times. There is a problem with the wind in Thailand, and it is raining heavily in Australia, and it is not a trip. This time it was great, there was no problem. The captain waited for everyone to sit still and began to lift off. The ship slowly rose, rising, what the Valley of the Kings, the Valley of the Queens, the Nile, the Palace of the Queen... all under our feet. How excited everyone was, the fatigue of coming had not known where. About fifty minutes or so, we began to fall... This is a meaningful experience in life, in addition to satisfaction, or satisfaction!

Luxor Hot Air Balloon: You need to leave at 4am to arrive at the departure point before the sun rises. Enjoy their breakfast at the hot air balloon company's meeting place and wait for them to inflate the balloon. In the dark, balloons slowly bulged, then stood tall, and then we stood in a group of four people, in a basket, in four groups, waiting to lift up. When the day is approaching, we take off with the balloon, and the following is the Imperial Valley, and the Imperial Valley is completely different from the Imperial Valley seen during the day, looking down at the entire Imperial Valley, the huge ancestor's tomb, can not walk during the day, now it looks so small.

Departed at 3 o'clock in the morning to take a hot air balloon, and a group of people from Mexico, Spain, and Colombia took a boat across the Nile River, waited for the fire and rise, and greeted the sunrise on the hot air balloon together.

That night, they negotiated a price with a local guide in Luxor, along with the chartered fare and the cost of the hot air balloon to lift off a total of 280 EBP/person (about 280 yuan). She said the price was very confusing, depending entirely on the level of tourist killings, and she knew that someone on the same trip paid up to $150 per person, while some spent just £250. When talking about the price, there was no mention of insurance, hot air balloon safety, project start-up party and hot air balloon pilot qualifications. At 4:30 am local time on February 19, after half an hour's drive, Lin Chenxuan and his party arrived at the hot air balloon base. As she was scheduled to take off in the penultimate, she had time to observe the scene, which was in an open space between houses and monuments on the west bank of the Luxoniro River, when they arrived, the hot air balloons were not inflated and they were "paralyzed" on the ground. "Some hot air balloons have holes, patches on them, patches are not big, not a lot." Lin Chenxu also found that there was only a canvas under the hot air balloon, and the hot air balloon was not very clean. Driver without a work license The driver is a local middle-aged man, wearing civilian clothes, and not wearing any work license. When the hot air balloon, the driver spoke a note in English, there was no translation on the spot, because he didn't understand English very well, Lin Chenxi didn't understand his meaning too much, only understood a sentence roughly to let passengers hold on the handrails on the hanging rail, do not shake. Lin and another group of 17 passengers (one of whom had a child) boarded the hot air balloon's rattan basket, and she noticed that three or four long, thin cylinders in the middle of the basket were in the center, and the driver stood in the center. Passengers stand on each side to keep the basket balanced. The flames are lit above the head at1-2 meters. The hot air balloon takes off steadily and flies slowly. Lin Chenxu found that the hot air balloon in the sky did not take the same route, but the height and height were different, and there was a big difference, one flew high and far, and the hot air balloon she was flying low, and she was still chagrined at that time. Driving level is uneven The whole flight process took 20 minutes, and the hot air balloon began to land after a period of flat flight. About 1 minute from the ground, the driver asked all passengers to squat down. At this time, there are many staff in the same civilian clothes on the ground waiting, waiting for the basket to approach the ground, the staff to pull it to avoid being taken to the sky by the hot air balloon. After landing, Lin Chenxi found that their hot air balloon landed in a piece of overturned farmland, the soil is soft. "But many hot air balloons have bad landing points and have to be raised a certain height again, and ground staff pull to the area to land," she said, adding that the control of the hot air balloon's fall also requires technology. Before the hot air balloon falls, the staff first spread a canvas, normal, the hot air balloon should slowly fall on the cloth. "One hot air balloon was not on the cloth at all, but on top of the passengers, who were 'turned out'," Lin said, adding that the driver's skills were uneven and it gave people a very chaotic feeling.