Hong Kong hosts first hot air balloon festival

Teams from nan UK, Japan, Canada and Malaysia are staging fixed displays, arsenic flying is restricted successful nan harbour area. Pilots opportunity conditions are difficult, and beardown winds stay nan main concern.

UK aviator Ashley Moore said he had been preparing since February and looked guardant to nan night-time “glow” display. Japanese aviator Endo Mamoru stressed that flights dangle wholly connected safe conditions.

Crowds gathered to watch nan balloons inflate, and galore described nan show arsenic a unsocial infinitesimal for Hong Kong. The arena runs from 4–7 September.