Peregrine Tours are here to take care of your every requirement and afford you the unique experience of hot air ballooning with the best in the business. Ballooning is essentially a rather elegant, eccentric adventure in space and time, and promises an excitement all of its own. 

On a typical Balloon Safari we can collect you from your hotel to transport you by comfortable mini-bus, or meet you at our Skeerpoort Balloon Field near Hartebeespooort Dam, just as the sun rises. Hot tea, coffee and biscuits are served, and if you like you can join in the fun to help the crew prepare the huge colourful balloon for flight in the calm and stable morning air.

There, from the slowly moving vantage of a hot air balloon you will experience the “720 degree” wrap-around panorama of the Magalies River Valley and nearby Hartbeespoort Dam area which, incidentally, boasts some of the best ballooning weather in the world. Hover at treetop height for a chat with or a wave to a local farmer as you go. Or, if you wish, and conditions permit, your pilot can take you to soar high among the clouds.

Quaff champagne as you go, and enjoy what some describe as the closest thing to heaven known to man – the “magical experience” of lazily drifting with the wind in a Hot Air Balloon, on a fascinating aerial sightseeing flight over the beautiful countryside bordering Gauteng and North-west Province.

After landing, which can be most fun of all, your ground crew, who have been following in the “retrieve vehicle”, will collect you and drive you back to our well appointed Riverside Country Base where our staff have freshly cooked a hearty “champagne breakfast”. You will be awarded a “citation for bravery”, with due ceremony, after which our transport returns you to your hotel by about mid-day.

Clothing: Should be warm enough for the chilly early morning but it should be “peelable” because the sun, excitement and probably the champagne will soon warm you. “Country” shoes and a hat are also recommended.
Fitness: Ballooning is suitable for adventurers from 7 – 70 (although our oldest passenger to date was 90 years old). Participants should be nimble, be able to jump unassisted from a height of 60cm and stand for the duration of the flight.

Don’t forget your camera and some extra film, or batteries for the video, as ballooning offers some most spectacular photo and movie opportunities. Balloons go up every day including weekends, weather permitting.

Tour duration: The flight will last about an hour. The total duration of the tour is about 4 to 5 hours plus transport time.
Cost: From R2285-00 per person. Subject to availability.
Transfers from Johannesburg: From R 250-00 per person

BILL HARROPS “ORIGINAL” BALLOON SAFARIS is a family business run by Bill and Mary Harrop that has been operating as a legally licensed Balloon Air Transport Service since 1981. Only qualified and experienced pilots are employed and over five-thousand very happy passengers a year are testimony to there professional attitude in entertaining you to one of the most memorably enjoyable experiences of your life.