9 best places to go hot-air ballooning in the world

Revel in 360-degree views of Earth’s most scenic landscapes, hovering high and low on a thrilling hot-air balloon ride. Only the adventurous need apply.

Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

Nowhere on Earth merits a hot air balloon POV quite like Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park, where you’ll spot lions, hippos, and giraffes wandering through the acacia-strewn plains. The team at Micato Safaris can organize these airborne sojourns from four strategically located points in the national park, and will help tailor your trip to witness the seasonal wildebeest and zebra migrations from a balloon.

Maasai Mara National Reserve, KenyaHot air balloons in Kenya’s Maasai Mara National Reserve have served as the ultra-romantic backdrop of nearly every East Africa safari brochure since the early years of luxury tourism (we’re looking at you, Micato Safaris). Similar to the Serengeti, here, wildlife spotting is achievable year-round; but the vistas here are most spectacular when the wildebeest have migrated across the Mara River into the Maasai Mara, usually between July and October.

Cappadocia, Turkey

Ogle at the ethereal “fairy chimneys” of central Turkey’s Cappadocia region, where the striking limestone spires and pillars are now peppered with subterranean churches and dwellings etched into the rock. The ground level views wow, but this natural grandeur is best appreciated from above, traveling 16 to 3200-feet in the air with Kapadokya Balloons.

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