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09.03.20

From the Archives - Tony Pascoe and David Shepherd

06.02.20

We've started offsetting our carbon

As we all begin to understand our responsibilities for the environment that we depend on, we are developing ways to mitigate our activities. Here at Serengeti Balloon Safaris, we've been working on a ...

21.10.19

Our Breakfast

If you've ever fantasised about transporting yourself into those iconic scenes from Out of Africa, you'll appreciate the romanticism of the Swahili dress, so elegantly worn in that film. As a celebrat...

19.07.19

The Hard Edge of the Migration

It was the renowned wildlife photographer/filmmaker Baron Hugo van Lawick (one time husband of Jane Goodall the famous primatologist), who coined the term 'hard edge of the migration', saying that it ...

12.07.19

Fantastic Flights

We've had some cracking flights lately, here's Jonny's report from yesterday: Morning all, We had another wonderful flight here in central Serengeti and flying conditions were perfect. The balloons we...

12.06.19

New Website goes live

Like one of your first safari cars, or even balloons, our trusted old website has done us so well, but it is time to upgrade to a newer model. After months of work we can finally announce that our new...

12.06.19

Always Improving

We are always working with our manufacturers to improve our equipment. Here you can see a visit earlier this year of the team from Ultramagic Globos working with us on our newest N-425 to improve some...

12.02.19

New Solar Power System

In 2018, we installed a completely new power system at our base in Seronera. Gone is the row of smelly, harmful generators, replaced with 150 solar panels and these 7 little batteries. Plus a lot of w...