Balloon safaris are a romantic and evocative way of experiencing the wilderness of East Africa, as you gracefully and silently fly over the plains teeming with herds of wildlife in the early morning.
Typically, a Hot Air balloon safari begins at break of dawn, about 6 am, and lasts for around 1 hour, during which you will fly over parts of the vast Masai Mara plain, seeing the magnificent wildlife below, spread over several square kilometers of the reserve.
Balloon flights are available daily in Maasai Mara and take off from designated sites where the disturbance to animals is kept to a minimum. Your safari vehicle drops you off at the take off site and picks you up from your landing site. The flight is followed by a champagne breakfast "in the bush", with a well laid out seating arrangement and waiters on hand, to give you a fitting finale to your memorable flight in the wild.
DETAILED ITINERARY
Day 1: Nairobi - Masai Mara Game Reserve
You will be picked up at the JKI Airport by our company representative for meet and greet. He/She will also introduce you to your driver guide.
You will then drive to Masai Mara Game Reserve. Maasai Mara is situated in south-west Kenya and is one of Africa's Greatest Wildlife Reserves. Together with the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania it forms Africa's most diverse, incredible and most spectacular eco-systems and possibly the world's top safari big game viewing eco-system. It is globally famous for its exceptional population of lions, leopards and cheetahs, and the annual migration of zebra, Thomson's gazelle, and wildebeest to and from the Serengeti every year from July to October, known as the Great Migration.
You will arrive in time for lunch at your booked Camp/lodge.
After lunch, you will have an afternoon/evening game drives and later return to the camp/lodge for dinner and overnight.
Day 2: Masai Mara
05:00 am: You will be picked up from your lodge and transferred to the launch site. Here you will meet your pilot, receive a briefing and watch the inflation of your balloon.
At dawn we take off, rising as the sun rises and float in whichever direction the winds of the morning take us. Your pilot can precisely control the altitude of your balloon: sometimes flying at treetop height, sometimes lower, offering a unique perspective and great photographic opportunities of the wildlife below. From time to time the pilot must put more heat into the balloon with the powerful whisper burners. In between these burns, there is silence apart from the natural sounds below. The flight is for about one hour depending on conditions, on landing you celebrate in the traditional manner with champagne (well, an excellent sparkling wine), before sitting down to a full English breakfast prepared and served in the bush in 'Out of Africa' style After breakfast you receive your Balloon certificate and we drive you back to the Camp with game viewing en route. Lunch at the camp followed by evening game drives.
You will later return in the evening for dinner and overnight.
Day 3: Masai Mara – Nairobi/Departure
Breakfast at the camp then check out and drive back to Nairobi and later drop off at your residence or airport to connect with your outbound flight.
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