2-Day Masai Mara Wildlife Safari with Optional Hot Air Balloon

• You will be picked up from your hotel, accommodation, or the airport. Thereafter, drive via Narok town to Maasai Mara National Reserve, the land of the Maasai tribe. The proud young Maasai warrior-nomads with plaited hair, red cloaks, and spears will challenge your curiosity. This 700-square-mile game reserve is the Africa of your dreams, with wild animals grazing amid the superb rolling landscape of gentle hills and acacia woodlands.
• Check in to your camp, have lunch, and then go ahead with a full-day game drive in the reserve.

Return to the camp before dark.

• Today, there will be a possibility to take a hot air balloon ride. Take to the skies for the ultimate Masai Mara wildlife adventure, soaring in a hot air balloon over herds of game to the inner reaches of the Mara. You'll ascend in the early morning when the winds are calmest. Watch as the professional crew fills the balloon with hot air. Slowly, the big, colourful bag begins to bulge and take shape. Now board the traditional wicker gondola basket while the expert pilot makes final adjustments. As the pink and red fireball of the sun rises in splendour over the plains, you're up, up and away - for the flight of a lifetime! Your balloon can soar over the most inaccessible and undisturbed parts of the Mara, with only the intermittent whisper of the balloon's gas burners punctuating the silence of your majestic flight. Because wind and weather conditions vary, every flight is a new and different experience!
• From your vantage point about 50-500 feet above the reserve, you have a fantastic 360-degree bird's-eye view as one of the most dramatic scenes in nature unfolds beneath you. Depending on the season, you might witness herds of antelope flowing like schools of fish across the plain, groups of elephants grazing undisturbed in a remote ravine, lionesses stealthily stalking a herd of grunting wildebeest, or zebras conferring in a confusion of black and white stripes and bark-like calls.
• After your incredible flight, it's time to return to Earth for breakfast. As you sip champagne and dig into a splendid breakfast of sizzling bacon, eggs, sausage, home-made bread, fresh tropical fruit, and steaming cups of Kenyan coffee or tea under the clear blue sky, you might wonder what all the ordinary people are doing on this perfect African morning!
• Before leaving, the pilot will present you with your balloon flight certificate, and then you'll enjoy a game drive en route back to the camp. No flight of the imagination can match this airborne experience! Note: Comfortable clothes, a hat or visor, sunglasses, sunscreen, and a light jacket or sweater are recommended. This tour will be offered at a very special price if booked with the safari.

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• 6.00 am: Wake-up call. Tea, coffee, and cookies will be served at the campsite.
• 6.30 am: Set out for an early morning game drive in the reserve. This is usually the most popular game-viewing time. During the early hours, temperatures are low, thus providing a favourable atmosphere for the game and the viewer. Lions, cheetahs, and leopards roam the vast grasslands for their next meal. It may be an unsuspecting impala or a small one like the warthog. Whatever the players, the spectacle of nature unfolding is always awe-inspiring!
• 11.30 am: End your game drive to prepare for your lunch en route-more game drives when leaving the National Park.

End of safari at 1600hrs in Nairobi.