World’s best balloon trips

Air travel doesn’t have to get you down. Go up, up and away with Forbes Traveler’s Best Balloon Trips. What other form of transportation allows you to drift over the Colossus of Memnon in Luxor, Egypt (pictured), a volcano in Costa Rica or Cinderella-esque chateaux in the heart of French wine country? Prices start as low as $245 per person in Dubai to thousands of dollars for a full-scale ballooning vacation. Or this can be more than just a vacation –– you can even become a certified balloon pilot.

If these flights of fancy are still a bit out of your price range, you can at least enjoy the glorious pictures on the Forbes Traveler’s Best Balloon Trips slideshow. Here are some of the highlights:

• Burgundy, France
• Göreme National Park, Cappadocia, Turkey
• Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
• Friedrichshafen, Germany
• Hajar Mountains, Dubai
• Luxor, Egypt

For more details and the full list, see the Forbes Traveler’s Best Balloon Trips slideshow.