It is with a degree of envy that we are woken some mornings to the sound of a hot air balloon flying overhead. Views over forested mountains and nearby beaches, a champagne breakfast, and a day without the usual drudgery of going to work all make the idea of an early morning in a hot air balloon very enticing.
From the ground it is still possible to share the experience of those above. Our valley becomes a part of the balloonists’ view and in turn their enjoyment. The roar of the balloon filling with hot air merges with the more earth-bound sounds of frogs and crickets, uniting the two spheres.
SOUNDS LIKE NOISE 
Love it! The sound is so alien to the overall soundscape that I would have had a hard time figuring out what it were if you hadn’t typed it.
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Yes, the first time I heard this sound over my house at 5:30 in the morning I was pretty confused!
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Hehehe, It was exactly what I think when I heard this soundscape, a “dinosaur breath”.
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I like your description, tongues of fire.
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We have (or at least we used to have) a hot air balloon fiesta here in Sergiyev Posad but it wasn’t the traditional drop-shaped balloons that flew over our heads during the weekend but something more off-the-wall like the flying tower, the Yellow Submarine (yes, the one you might have thought of), or even a Matryoshka doll. I’ve made a few recordings of this event for my blog but here is the photo of that very doll taken (not by me) from a hotel roof nearby http://www.oontz.ru/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/sss930.jpg And speaking of dinosaurs – we’ve had them too back in 2006! http://www.oontz.ru/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/dino.jpg
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Thanks Vladimir – I’ll make sure to have a listen to those recordings. The festival you’ve described sounds like a lot of fun.
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