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20240811_063913 Our Hot Air Balloon Pilot: Mervin D'Souza; who pointed out various Masai Features and the wild animal herds far below . . . while expertly operating the Balloon maneuvers and occasionally firing the Propane Gas to keep the Balloon moving
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20240811_063653 View below (of other 2 Balloons of our group) as we lift-off for the Masai Mara ride
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20240811_081520 Post Balloon Ride - breakfast with Champagne as part of the Ride packaged on the
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20240811_073325 Latha, quite happy after the awesome balloon ride
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20240811_064936 Balloon Ride started before sunrise ... we left resort lodge at 5am to reach site by 6am
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20240811_064854 Sunrise and here you can see the selfie stick with a Go-Pro camera hanging out from the Balloon looking back us (the 14 Pax in the basket and the Pilot)
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20240811_064232 View of Sunrise . . . from the Hot Air Balloon rise over Masai-Mara
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20240811_064022 Our Masai Mara Hot Air Balloon Co-riders in the Basket
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GH018119 Balloon landing maneuvers - Pax are seated inside the basket (can't be seen) "holding on" to safety handles
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GH018116 Video from a GoPro Camera mounted on a selfie-stand floating outside the Balloon
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GH018113 - Video from Balloon's GoPro camera on selfie stand hanging outside
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20240811_071434 A Zebra herd seen form the Balloon
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20240811_071233 From the Balloon Ride over Masai Mara
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20240811_070911 Giraffes from the Balloon ride
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20240811_070538 View from the Balloon ride over Masai Mara
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20240811_070020 View from Hot Air Balloon ride over Masai Mara, Kenya
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20240811_065435 Dawn Hot Air Balloon Ride over Masai Mara
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20240811_065256 Sunrise from Hot Air Balloon ride over Masai Mara
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20240811_064731 Latha . . . .enjoying the views from the Balloon ride over Masai Mara
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20240811_064702 Sunrise from the Balloon
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20240811_064528 Another Balloon ... there seemed to be over 20-30 Balloons around us today
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20240811_064324 View from the Hot Air Balloon
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20240810_160023 Our driver Vincent managed to find a good parking spot to view the River Crossing. See the line of Wildebeest crossing the river and the thousands already on the other side.
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20240810_155554 The Migration race is on
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20240810_155530 The Wildebeest running in line to cross the river
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20240810_155421 Now a line of Zebras running to cross the Mara river
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20240810_155325 The Migration run to the Mara River
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20240810_155115 The Wildebeest running towards the Mara river .. as we watched from a distance from the Safari Jeep.
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20240810_155000 The Wildebeest line running fast to the Mara river at the crossing spot
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20240810_154703 The Wildebeest and Zebra Migration across the Mara river .. as we watched from a distance from the Safari Jeep.
