Luxor Hot Air Balloon Review

This was by far the highlight of my trip to Egypt. Seeing the Sunrise and Temples from above are just amazing! If you are in Egypt this activity is definitely a must!

This should be the cheapest hot air balloon experience in the world. We paid about RMB 280, and it is said that the cheaper one is 200. The scenery is not as good as Cappadocia, but it is good for the first experience.

I was really scared but it was safe. do it!

The Luxor hot air balloon that must be visited is also compared with the prices of several companies. The price is reasonable. If you go to the local local travel agency, there will be a lower price. Pull the group to dock in advance, someone will come to the hotel to pick it up, but our hotel is opposite the pier, basically just boarded the boat when we left the hotel. The staff who came to pick us up took care of us. The whole trip of the hot air balloon was also very good, 4.35am came to pick it up, and returned to the hotel before 8 o'clock. It is recommended, Trip.com Directly worry-free.

The most expensive self-funded project of the trip to Egypt, $140/person, but the price is very high compared to Masai Mara, Kenya. It is always very hard to take a hot air balloon. It is called early at 4:15 in the morning, and it departs at 4:45. The departure place is on a vacant lot next to the quarry. The sun had just risen, and the golden sun shone on the body, warm, and the slight coolness of the Egyptian morning. Colorful balloons scattered in the open space, some were full of hot air, and they were flying; some were just inflating, and they were still pulling their heads; Others lay weakly on the ground because the fuel bottles for heating the air had not arrived. Egypt's hot air balloon can hold up to 20 passengers, the basket is divided into five zones, the four corners of the area is the passenger zone, each area can stand five people, the middle area is the pilot's operating area. I was standing at the outermost point in the upper left corner. Although the view was very wide, it was a bit hot when the heating device was sprayed. After 10 minutes, I reached the predetermined height, 3,200 feet, almost 970 meters, more than 100 meters higher than the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa. At a height of nearly 1 km from the ground, the small hanging basket swaying slightly, the vast world, this is a wonderful experience, like a dream! The morning mist has not yet dissipated, and the distance above the Nile is like a white ribbon around the Nile River. Slowly moving at foot is the majestic temple built by the female Pharaoh Hatshepsut on the mountain, overlooking her quaint vicissitudes, her broken walls and ruins all at a glance. Our balloons slowly floated over the Valley of the Kings, past the statue of the Sagrada Familia, and the world was so quiet, there was no noise from tourists. The balloon landed safely in the desert in front of the Imperial Valley. Because of the wind direction, each balloon landed in a different place, some even had to be several kilometers apart. Before landing, we saw the car that picked us up chasing us in the desert below. The landing was very smooth, we didn't even do the pre-take-off study, after landing, the organizer sent each person a certificate souvenir.