A stall vendor holds her child as she waits for customers to buy her wares.
A hot air balloon prepares for liftoff.
A balloon containing fireworks takes to the sky.
A team of balloon builders celebrate the successful ascension of their town's balloon.
A group of Burmese balloon builders attaches candles to a balloon before liftoff.
A group prepares to attach a tail of candles to a balloon.
A man inspects homemade fireworks that will be used as the undercarriage of a balloon.
Men holding lit torches use heat to inflate a balloon.
A fireman watches as a misfired balloon hovers dangerously over a truck.
A fire truck uses a water cannon to deflate a balloon that failed to take off.
Onlookers celebrate as fireworks attached to a balloon explode on the ground beneath it.
A journalist takes cover as fireworks attached to a balloon explode on the ground.
A mother and child navigate the festival grounds as fireworks go off around them.
Men climb a manually operated Ferris wheel, using their body weight to spin it around.
