Local authorities chose the hot air balloon flights to promote the Lassithi Plateau, its special geomorphology, and to boost tourist flows, following a different approach, that for those who dare, has become an obsession.

Much like Baron Munchausen’s fairytale air balloon flights, the seaside town of Kalamata in the Peloponnese, is ready to launch hot air balloon travel on May 15 from the country’s first such base.