Serengeti Balloon Safari; Tanzania.
There is a certain feeling that people get when the excitement of a Serengeti hot air ballon safari crosses their emotion of self-control and independence. Normally, when you close your eyes, you feel your body lift up, with you having no control over it, and inside you a certain part is felt saying to yourself, I am crazy for taking this Serengeti ballon safari.

The feeling is unusual and so hard to describe, crispness of the African air, chill in the wind that hits your face as your Mara hot air balloon increases, smoothness in your process of breathing out, and the excitement to view and learn more. When reading this, one’s physical presence can be felt on the plains of the Serengeti.

Usually, when you are at your safari lodge in central Serengeti, you get a wake up call during the early hours of the morning, and this is when your trip begins as thoughts about our wildlife spoting from an elevated position begins to run around your mind. There, you get prepared for a “mission” by the Tanzanian traditional hot tea and coffee that quickly awaken you.

You a rive at the hot air balloon site in the Serengeti at around 6:00am, and as you get to the site, the ballon appears bigger than you thought it would be, this makes the experience a new one that you have never visited, and indeed you are about to have a trip forever.

The hot air balloon safari begins at 6:15am and the Captain tells you to relax and continue watching the wonders under the African sky. As you finally begin to spot on the elevation, there is an automatic smile that appears on one’s face and it is obviously not necessary to explain why one gets such a smile on the face.

You then begin spoting wildbeest moving in big numbers across the Serengeti plains, the beauty of the landscape when the rising sun’s bright orange colours are shown, the gazelles plus zebras moving quickly with short light steps as though they have never seen an alien object in the sky before, as well as the elephants at the water pool.

People are normally happy and satisfied with ballon safari by 7:15am and this is almost touch down time. There is a celebration, and those who like a toast, champagne is served, meanwhile in the bush, hot breakfast continues to be prepared. There after, you will wonder whether what you have been experiencing is a reality, as the sweetness ands aroma of the African coffee and tea gets a round you and you are served fresh eggs as well just as you like it, you hope for another ride, and wish for the continuation of such luxury. No wonder therefore, by the time you finish your Serengeti bush breakfast, you may end up deciding to immigrate to Tanzania for it is the only place where such life is found.

You are then declared a champion by 9:00 am, and a mighty Certificate of completion, which you hope to show in your home country, to family, co-workers as well as friends, is handed to you. You there and then become proud to achieve a trip as wonderful as this because the clapping and participation by everyone present makes you feel so. By then, you hear a blaring sound of music or even an annoying buzz, you turn around and switch off the alarm clock. Your eyes wide open, you realize that you have to re-visit Tanzania, to Serengeti is only you don’t want to get mad by the recurring dreams that keep on coming to your mind.