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Back at base, we snacked on wild mangoes with chilli sauce, strips of deep-fried buffalo skin and sun-dried pork while watching a hot-air balloon sail over the peaks as the sun set.

Baby jib top-sails had been sent down before the rounding, and spinnaker poles were now ready for the balloon sail.

As the balloon sails on, borne forward by the wind, its shadow travels either on the ground or on the clouds.

"Only to have a race you have to let your balloon sail off, without any string fast to it, and you will not get it back again."

He accepts a pipe, and his greater height raises it into a favourable current of air—the glistening balloon sails off.