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Float silently over the Serengeti at dawn as the plains wake beneath you — then touch down to a champagne breakfast in the bush.
A hot-air balloon safari is the Serengeti from a perspective almost no one forgets: lifting off as the sun breaks the horizon, drifting in near silence a few hundred feet above the plains, watching elephant, giraffe, and the migration herds move beneath you, and seeing the savannah roll out to every horizon.
The flight lasts about an hour, after which you touch down to a full champagne breakfast laid out in the bush — a tradition borrowed from the early balloonists. The whole experience, door to door from your camp, takes around four and a half hours. It’s the classic safari splurge, and the one guests least regret.
Collected before dawn and driven to the launch site.
Rise with the sun for an hour of silent drifting over the plains.
Watch herds and big game move beneath the basket.
Touch down to a champagne breakfast served in the open.
It's a genuine splurge for one hour aloft, but in fifteen years of arranging safaris we've never had a guest say it wasn't worth it. Book it for a morning in the central Serengeti, go in calm dry-season weather for the smoothest flight, and bring a layer — dawn is cold before the burners warm you.
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