This is another highlight of this trip. We've seen this balloon festival several different years now.
It is always fun. And it starts Early in the mornings. I've learned to manipulate the exposure setttings
on my camera because when I took these first few pictures, it was just after daybreak and there was not
a lot of light surrounding us. In fact, there was still quite a bit of fog wafting through this valley at times.
on my camera because when I took these first few pictures, it was just after daybreak and there was not
a lot of light surrounding us. In fact, there was still quite a bit of fog wafting through this valley at times.
The balloons land in this narrow valley at the foot of Rocamadour on Sat afternoon and the next morning over a 3 hour period about 30 balloons inflate slowly, and float up and down, creating quite a show.,
Eventually they drift away, a couple at a time, with the breeze.
Just after sunrise the activity in the valley starts. The support vans with the balloon baskets come streaming down the hillside (seen in the background), it almost looks like they are in a race. And immediately start to
inflate the balloons. You can hear them before you can see them. Then they slowly start to pop up like brightly colored snow-cones clustered into a small area in this very narrow valley below. A couple at a time, they gently and slowly lift off!
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