Moments and Memories

Moments and Memories

Sunday 25 March 2012

Festival Balloon Indonesia 2012

Hot Air Ballooning was held from 22-24 March 2012 in Sentul City! Balloon teams from 11 countries will Soar Above the Skies of Sentul for three days. Hot Air Balloon Festivals brings about the “Feel Good” factor in us all. Families can enjoy precious quality time together. www.festivalballoonindonesia.com

I had plan to attend this event from last two weeks, but then by the time pass, I forgot it.
Till my friend remind me, when will I visit the event, I found out our family schedule was full already.
Seem I need to buried my dream to watched a balloon event.

But yeah, sometime thing did come unexpectedly.
On Saturday, after we done our activities, I search out the balloon schedule and fount out that we could still attend the noon one.
The morning schedule was from 06.00-08.00  and the noon was from 16.30 to 19.00.
Daddy agreed to take us there. Here the good part of Daddy, who always try to give his best whenever it's come to family time. I knew he was tired, but he kept saying that he was fine and want to drive us there.

There was parking area near the location but limited and mostly end up with traffic jam.
Therefore, we park in the one dedicated area and taking the shuttle bus to location (around 5 minutes).
A long queuing waiting for us and there was no divider line and I felt we stand there around 30 minutes, cause many people snap in the middle of the line. Entrance fee: IDR 25.000 per person (around 2.5USD).

Inside the area, there were A Stage for Music Performance, A Tramp for children - must pay IDR25.000 for 3 minutes, A small children play area, and A lot Food and Merchandise Stand.





Daddy said the standing toilet was clean also, and that was nice.
Cause a lot of Food stand there with affordable price (the price was similar to foodCourt in the mall), make me easy to find something for Josh's Dinner - I brought Nasi Gudeg (traditional Indonesian Food from Yogyakarta).

Then we kept waiting for the balloon to fly up the sky.
Unfortunately, we couldn't watch it till the end of show.
WHY?  To flying the balloon was depend on the whether, especially the speed of the wind blow.
IF speed of the wind was high, then it dangerous to flying the balloon, as the balloon will not blowing firm and stable and got burned by the fire.
We only saw the candle fire.

People kept waiting. Balloon was prepared.


See all the balloon has been prepared but none of them fly *hiks*


We got a chance to stand inside.
I heard that in the morning, 18balloons were soar to sky.
Urggggg......We missed this out.
Actually, we could attend the morning event if I really search out the schedule before, cause Josh was awake before 6am in the morning which was a very rare thing happen. Plus, I did feel the morning whether was hot and without wind, what a perfect whether for balloon to fly.
Anyway, We really hope there will be another event next year and we hope we could see the balloon flying up. Ok, plus I think shall do some whether forecast before going there *hahaha*

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