Hot Air Ballooning

Want to touch the sky?

Magaliesburg area offers a number of ways to get ‘up,up and away’. The most prestigious and expensive of these is ballooning at sunrise. If you want to get up later, be less at risk of weather-related cancellations and pay less, try gliding or microlighting.

Ballooning choices

Bill Harrop’s “Original Balloon Safaris” in Hekpoort offers a thoroughly safe and professional experience in the company of a true local character. Our guest house visitors usually enjoy the sunrise flights and return here for breakfast. Make sure you bring warm clothing for flights, because you will get up long before the sun rises to be part of the pre-flight preparations.
Life Ballooning and School of Ballooning offers flights and ballooning lessons from Mokoya Lodge.
Flying Pictures offers sunrise hot air balloon flights that include breakfast. Guests who took a flight enjoyed the experience until the flight was aborted due to wind.
Discover Ballooning also operates in the area but none of our guests have tried them.

Gliding

Magalies Gliding Club off the R24 near Orient on the Randfontein road offers introductory glider flights and midweek teambuilding. This is a long-established club with a good safety record and social facilities for members. Some of our German guests visited members they knew from Internet contact, flew with them, socialised there and enjoyed the experience thoroughly.

Microlighting choices

Saddle Creek Ranch off the R560 offers microlight adventure flights. Some of our British guests were thrilled at the experience of touching the clouds and seeing the amazing views of the Magaliesberg. They stayed on to ride horses.
Davies Aircraft Corp (DAC) offers micro lighting for individuals and corporates. It is situated off the R24 opposite the
Tarlton International Drag Strip. Our friends and family have enjoyed the early morning flights, but DAV Will also book late afternoon flights. The views are of farmlands.

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