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Exploring Amboseli on a hot air balloon [Wilberforce Okwiri/Standard]

Our wake-up call is 4.15 am; we have an early coffee session before leaving. Jonathan of Serena Amboseli, our host, Serena, explains we have to be at Kilimanjaro Safaris latest 5.15 am if we have to make it to catch our flight for our scheduled hot-air balloon flight, the only flight for the day.

I skip the tantalizing buffet breakfast in favour of the long-awaited experience flight - I could not miss an adventure that has been on my "must-do" bucket list for more than a decade.

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