{"id":3875,"date":"2016-02-20T09:15:03","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T08:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/?p=3875"},"modified":"2019-02-14T12:01:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T11:01:28","slug":"with-the-hot-air-balloon-over-pai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/with-the-hot-air-balloon-over-pai\/","title":{"rendered":"With the Hot Air Balloon over Pai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dee, Elena, Gerben and Mitsos gave me a hot air balloon ride in Pai for my birthday &#8211; here are the pictures! Thank you, my friends &#8211; it was fun :-)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/pai\/baloon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Preparations for a Hot air balloon flight over Pai\"\/><br \/>Preparations on a field above Pai. Somehow they where not to happy with the wind direction. They started some toy helium balloons to see where they went but they all went to the same direction. After 30 minutes they where happy with the wind direction and they started the wind machines to prepare the balloon for the hot air. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/pai\/baloon1.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"443\" alt=\"Hot air balloon over Pai\"\/><br \/>Once the machines are blowing air inside the balloon everything goes quite fast. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/pai\/baloon2.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Hot air balloon over Pai\"\/><br \/>The Yellow Monster wakes up  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/pai\/baloon3.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Preparation of the hot air balloon\"\/><br \/>Once the hot air comes into play it only takes a few seconds to have the balloon up and in flight position <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/pai\/baloon4.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Hot air balloon over Pai\"\/> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/pai\/baloon5.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"445\" alt=\"Hot air balloon over Pai\"\/><br \/>Almost time to board <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/pai\/baloon6.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"728\" alt=\"A few seconds before the Hot air balloon takes off\"\/><br \/>A few seconds to go <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/pai\/baloon7.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Blasting hot air into the hot air balloon\"\/><br \/>Time to go &#8211; heat! <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/pai\/baloon8.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Hot air balloon over Pai\"\/><br \/>The ground crew gave us candy for the kids. They had a lot of fun catching it and we had fun too.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/pai\/baloon9.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Hot air balloon over the garlic fields of Pai\"\/><br \/>Since you move with the wind you do not feel the wind. Frome time to time there is some noise from the burner. Apart from that it is super quite. On the left of the field you can see garlic that they put there to dry <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/pai\/baloon10.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Hot air balloon over Pai\"\/><br \/>So far they went towards town with the wind. And than we went up hight in the sky to stay over the town. The draft where only a few hundred meters above ground and it was blowing towards Chiang Mai. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/pai\/baloon11.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Hot air balloon over Pai\"\/><br \/>You can see the smoke from the fires &#8211; we could not see far &#8211; to bad :-( <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/pai\/baloon12.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Empty rice fields from the Hhot air ballooni\"\/><br \/>Empty rice fields &#8211; it must be super nice when everything is still green. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/pai\/baloon13.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Hot air balloon over Pai\"\/><br \/>Towards Pai we fly errrr float that is. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/pai\/baloon14.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Hot air balloon over Pai\"\/><br \/>In the center you see the Montis Resort<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/pai\/baloon15.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Hot air balloon over Pai\"\/><br \/>Overview of Pai  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/pai\/baloon16.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"459\" alt=\"Hot air balloon over Pai\"\/><br \/>The crew and the 3rd passenger. A tourist from China. The balloon, pilots and ground crew are all from China. Strange! <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/pai\/baloon17.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Pai from above\"\/><br \/>Pai from above <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/pai\/baloon18.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Pai airport\"\/><br \/> Pai airport<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/pai\/baloon19.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Hot air balloon over Pai\"\/><br \/>Happy Mitsos 1100 meters above ground <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/pai\/baloon20.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"853\" alt=\"Hot air balloon over Pai\"\/><br \/>One resort that they never finished and another one where every house has a kayak to use in the gigantic pool <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/pai\/baloon21.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Hot air balloon over Pai\"\/><br \/>Pai new town &#8211; the coffee street and new market <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/pai\/baloon22.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Hot air balloon over Pai\"\/><br \/>Looking for a place to land &#8211; scaring some cows when we have to go up again to clear the trees <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/pai\/baloon23.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Hot air balloon over Pai\"\/> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/pai\/baloon24.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Hot air balloon over Pai\"\/><br \/>Interesting round circles in that rice field &#8211; the only one in Pai <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/pai\/baloon25.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Hot air balloon over Pai\"\/> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/pai\/baloon26.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Hot air balloon over Pai\"\/><br \/>Patterns &#038; Cow&#8217;s <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/pai\/baloon27.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Hot air balloon over Pai\"\/><br \/>The last 20 minutes was a lot of fun. The balloon needs an empty rice field to land. And in between are garlic fields so they can not land there. The valley is divided by the river so the balloon was going left and right of the river and the ground crew on 2 motorbikes and one Pick-Up did try to follow. Here you can see an attempt to get a hold on the landing rope. It did not work out and they had to let go. So everybody back on the bikes and car and rushing to the next possible spot. A cat and mouse chase over temples, the river and lots of fields. 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Thank you, my friends &#8211; it was fun :-) Preparations on a field above Pai. Somehow they where not to happy with the wind direction. They started some toy helium balloons to see&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":3880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kb_optimizer_status":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,5,4],"tags":[86,351,350],"class_list":["post-3875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-travel","category-pai","category-thailand","tag-asia","tag-pai","tag-thailand"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/baloon19.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Marc Hastenteufel","author_link":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/author\/marc\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/baloon19.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}