3rd Edition Putrajaya Hot Air Balloon Fiesta - Part 1

Putrajaya 3^rd edition of Hot Air Ballon Fiesta was held on from 18^th to 20^th of March 2011. On this 3^rd edition, there were few new hot air balloon participate on this year event such as the Doraemon and the Tree.

As it was collide with the school holidays break for Malaysians, it was a great opportunity for parents to bring their children to the fiesta. For the three days events, there were few events awaits the visitors who throngs to the fiesta for the young and old. For those who looking for extreme games, they may go to the Mountain Dew extreme park and while for the kids, they may enter few competition such as coloring contest and paper plane competition making.

Tasik Cruise is one of popular ride at Putrajaya

I went there twice which is on Saturday evening and Sunday morning. On Saturday evening, it supposed to be an outing with fellow friends which into photography as well but seem the weather is not with us. So some of them returned home as it seems the rain likely to stop.  So on the next day after sending my wife to work, I drove up to Putrajaya alone to catch the hot air balloon display.

Para-motors fly above the fiesta ground

It was a nice sights seeing the para motor flying around the bridge

One of the para-motors with Jalur Gemilang

Some of the para-motor

Another shot of the para-motors

Another shot of para motors

As I was about to reach putrajaya, I saw few para-motor flying. So I parked my car beside the road and snap some of the photo. There were about 12 to 15 para motors flying above the fiesta ground.

After snapping few photos, I drove my car and parked near to the fiesta ground. During a big events such as this, you can see a lot of imaginary parking aka illegal parking been made. Sometime due to this inconsiderate behavior causes jam as people does not seem to follow the authority order.

There were a lot of people at the market place

 Seem like selling balls is a thing in the fiesta. Saw a lot people bought few of the balls.

RC plane performance

Helium Air RC

Eager to watch the shows

As expected on the last day of the fiesta, it was packed with people. The day was extremely hot and windy. The first site I approach was the hot air balloons and only managed to catch few photo before the balloon was rest for the whole afternoon. I didn’t managed to capture Doraemon and Darth Vader hot air balloon as it only schedule in the evening show.

A ride on the hot air balloon.

Only 300 ticket are being sold for each session.

Inflating of the hot air balloons

I captured few of photo of the fiesta and it side events for this blog. I might separate some of the event into separate post as I know some of the reader does not like to read but only love to view photo. So make sure you stay tune with my next post. If you want to view more photo of the hot air balloons, you may view at the following website Malaysia-Asia blog and official website at MyBalloonFiesta. To view the 1st edition of the event, you may refer on my previous post here.