Niigata passes a festival of balloons in prefecture

Colourful balloons attract tourists and locals in Ojiya in northern Japanese Prefecture of Niigata. 34 teams were gathered in this city about only Japan for participation in a festival of balloons. Participants one by one started by the balloons which reach in height about 20 meters, flying by over the rice fields covered with snow in the cloudy sky. Multi-colored coloring of spheres was allocated on a snow-covered landscape...