Weird and wacky hot air balloons at Swiss festival

Chateau d'Oex in Switzerland is hosting its annual hot air balloon festival for the 39th time.

It has a longstanding connecting with ballooning - in 1999, Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones took off from the Swiss city in the Breitling Orbiter to do the first tour of the world in a hot air balloon.

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