We did two balloon flights while in the Mara. The first flight was on the Eastern side of the park and was in the company of another balloon and then the other flight was on the Western side of the park with the landing site close to Tanzania’s Serengeti boundary. This a quiet and pleasant way to see the savanna and wildlife without alarming them unduly.
We had booked the Mt Kenya flight with Tropic Air Kenya before we left NZ but as the mountain had been shrouded in cloud for 8 days we had resigned ourselves to not being able to take the flight. At 6am we received a call from Mario, Tropic Air Kenya’s Chief Helicopter Pilot to say that the mountain was clear and it was all go. Mount Kenya is the highest mountain in Kenya and the second-highest in Africa, after Kilimanjaro (Tanzania) …