Travel Video of the Week: First Underground Hot Air Balloon Flight
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The Croatia Tourism board recently uploaded
an interesting video of Ivan Trifonov, a seventy-year-old Austrian with a Croatian passport. He’s the first man to try and succeed in flying a hot air balloon underground. This experienced hot air balloon pilot has four Guinness records and the flight in the video, into the Mamet Cave, is likely to be his fifth record. Check it out—and with it, all of the beautiful Croatian scenery.
