Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Putrajaya International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta 2012

Since I have two japanese friends coming to visit, I thought what luck that their arrival is on the same date as the event!!

So after picking them up from LCCT at 530am, we had breakfast, a short rest and lunch, before driving to Putrajaya on the assumption that the balloons will be there from 7am till 9pm.

Upon arrival at Precinct 2 at about 1pm we were quite surprised to see EMPTY skies... so we were kind of prepared for the worst... but having difficulty in finding parking space kind of give us some hope that since there are still such a big crowd of people coming, perhaps, just perhaps the balloons could still be there.

We got down, ask around and were very disappointed to hear that the balloons are only up from:-
7 - 11am and
5 or 6pm till about 9pm
(depending on the weather conditions). SIGH!!

Huge huge disappointment!! Apparently the balloons cannot stay afloat in our Malaysians' exceedingly hot afternoons.

So we just walked around the stalls before deciding that the open air space was indeed too hot for my japanese friends and even for us locals and headed for Curve, Damansara ;D

We will try again next year as I have checked other blogs and these balloons look huge and interesting! These are some of the photos from KenWooi and My Sweet & Twisted Life blogs...


Better luck next year as now I know their modus operandi ;p

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