Pavitra Khanna

Pushkar is a small village on the hills of the Arravali mountais, with a fabled lake and 400 temples all around it. This city is among the five pilgrimages of Hindu religion. It offers tranquility and joy to the devotees and even vacationers

There's no age barrier to enjoy hot-air ballooning, but you have to be fit, as you may have to walk through paddocks after landing. In India, hot air ballooning as an adventure sport is rapidly gaining popularity among the adventure seekers.

Jaipur is called by many as the Pink city. Draped all over in pink, from offices to restaurants, from hotels to market places; everywhere you go you find a touch of pink in them. So fascinated with the colour pink, Jaipur looks like a doll if you ever get to see the city with a hawk eye vision

Ever since Icarus of Greek Mythologyflew close to the Sun, Man has channelizedhis efforts into unravelling the secret to flight. In the late Eighteenth Century two brothers in France took an ancient Chinese concept and applied it to create the first Hot Air Balloons and the ability to soar up in the sky long before aeroplanes were invented by the Wright brothers.

Long before the first "heavier than air"aircraft successfully flew at Kitty Hawk piloted by the Wright brothers of the United States, anotherduo namely the Mongolfier brothers of France built and successfully flew the first Hot Air Balloon in the late 18th century during the reign of King Louis the XVIalmost a hundred years previously.

Adventure sports in India has something for everyone looking for adventure. The natural wealth of Indian Subcontinent has always been fascinating and appealing for all nature lovers around the globe.

Air balloon flight is gaining popularity as the adventure sport across the world. Attractive aspects of ballooning include the exceptional serenity and the lack of a feeling of movement, and the bird's-eye view.

The past decade has seen a tremendous increase in adventure tourism all over the world. People are traveling to the famous tourist spots not merely for visual attractions. They want to add more spice to their visit. Thus the expectations of a tourist are not limited to hospitality and luxury. Adventure is an integral part of it and no body can deny this fact.

Enjoying a flight in the air has been leisure or one should say a fantasy for human beings since times immemorial. It has been portrayed in many ancient paintings and scriptures. Leonardo Da Vinci once designed a painting that resembled a modern day helicopter and later in the twentieth century Wright brothers converted his design into a full fledged flying machine.

The hot air balloon is the oldest successful human-carrying flight technology. However, with the advent of air planes, flights 'by lighter-than-air' machines went out of fashion until it was revived in the last century as an adventure sport. Hot air balloons that can be propelled through the air rather than just being pushed along by the wind are known as airships or, more specifically, thermal airships.