{"id":141,"date":"2013-06-06T22:04:33","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T19:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\/blog\/?p=141"},"modified":"2019-02-14T14:31:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T11:31:03","slug":"hot-air-balloon-safari-in-masai-mara-and-serengeti-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\/blog\/hot-air-balloon-safari-in-masai-mara-and-serengeti-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot air balloon safari in Masai Mara and Serengeti National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hot Air Balloon Safari<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Probably the most beautiful balloon flight in the world and the ultimate African safari experience. <strong>This can be arrange in Kenya (Masai Mara and Great Rift Valley) and Tanzania in Central Serengeti.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>5:00 am: Collection from your Serengeti (Central) and <strong>Masai Mara lodge<\/strong> or camp, and transfer you by Land rover to the launch site. Here you will meet your pilot, receive a briefing and watch the inflation of your balloon.<\/p>\n<p>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 <strong>balloon<\/strong>: sometimes flying at treetop height, sometimes lower, offering a unique perspective and great <strong>photographic<\/strong> opportunities of the wildlife below.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Balloon Safari in Masai Mara<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>At other times he will ascend to 1000&#8242; or more to see the enormity and wonderful panorama of the <strong>Serengeti<\/strong>. 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.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-812\" alt=\"Hot air balloon safari in Masai Mara and Serengeti National Park\" src=\"https:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Hot-air-balloon-safari-in-Masai-Mara-300x190.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Hot-air-balloon-safari-in-Masai-Mara-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Hot-air-balloon-safari-in-Masai-Mara-190x120.jpg 190w, https:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Hot-air-balloon-safari-in-Masai-Mara-60x38.jpg 60w, https:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Hot-air-balloon-safari-in-Masai-Mara-400x254.jpg 400w, https:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Hot-air-balloon-safari-in-Masai-Mara.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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 &#8216;<strong>Out of Africa<\/strong>&#8216; style with bone china, linen table cloths, King&#8217;s silver etc.<\/p>\n<p>After breakfast you receive your <strong>Balloon certificate<\/strong> and we drive you back to the Lodge or camp with <a title=\"Masai Mara Game viewing from hot air balloon ride\" href=\"https:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\/3-days-maasai-mara-tour-in-kenya\/\">game viewing<\/a> en route. 9:30 am Arrive at the lodge\/camp ready to continue your day&#8217;s activities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Masai Mara<\/strong>: US manner with champagne (well, an excellent sparkling wine), before sitting down to a <strong>full English breakfast<\/strong> prepared and served in the bush in &#8216;Out of Africa&#8217; style with bone china, linen table cloths, King&#8217;s silver etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot Air Balloon Safari Probably the most beautiful balloon flight in the world and the ultimate African safari experience. This can be arrange in Kenya (Masai Mara and Great Rift Valley) and Tanzania in Central Serengeti. 5:00 am: Collection from your Serengeti (Central) and Masai Mara lodge or camp, and transfer you by Land rover [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,35,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kenya-safari","category-masai-mara-safari","category-tanzania-safaris-tours"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1227,"href":"https:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/1227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}