For a full week, the sky fills with more than 500 brightly colored balloons, which launch en masse many mornings from the 360-acre Balloon Fiesta Park in northern Albuquerque. Festival attendees ...

Balloons take off from Battersea Park around 5.30am. Ouch. However, the spectacle of dozens of colourful balloons gliding gracefully across across the summer sky not long after sunrise makes it ...