HOT AIR BALLOONING

To take a hot air balloon trip is an exceptional outdoor activity and a most unforgettable experience. Your hot air balloon ride does involve an early morning start, however, pre dawn!

You will be collected from your Marrakech accommodation pre-dawn, when the air is still and cool, ideal conditions for the rising of the hot air balloon.

On arrival at the edge of a traditional village of Douar Oulad Elguern, on the Marrakech Plain, and whilst enjoying a pre-flight light first breakfast, you will see much of the pre-flight preparations, all adding to the anticipation and thrills to come.

Then, after some safety instructions, it is up, up and away!

When the balloon's burners have done their work, the ensuing silence adds great atmosphere to the spectacular scenic views; views over the Marrakech Plain, its villages and their activities and the Jbilet Hills’ rocky outcrops. On the southern horizon is the massif of the High Atlas. This is all very captivating; it feels almost “other worldly”, gently drifting above a fascinating landscape.

Your flight is timed to ascend just before sunrise, a great anticipatory moment. Then the views of the first sun’s rays of a new day awakening burst through on the eastern horizon.

The wind's direction and strength on the day that you take your flight will detemine your routing and the distance travelled.

Of course, and very importantly, you will receive your named (written in Arabic) and signed (by your pilot) Certificate of Flight, a fine momento of the time you have hot air ballooning.

Mid morning you are then rreturned to your Marrakech accommodation.