Sunrise Hot-Air Balloon Flight — Marrakech

See Marrakech from the air at sunrise. The experience starts before the day does. A shuttle picks you up early to reach the launch site, where the team is preparing the balloon in the last hours of the night. While the envelope inflates and the burners fire, you watch the whole thing take shape before climbing aboard for about an hour of flight.

Once you are up, Marrakech unfolds beneath you: the palm groves, the villages, the desert landscapes and, depending on flight conditions, the foothills of the Atlas. The pilot works the altitude and the line with the currents to make the most of the scenery.

On board the mood is quiet. From the basket you watch the Moroccan countryside wake up, the first light picking out the landscape piece by piece. A singular way of seeing Marrakech, between sky, palm groves and the mountains of the Atlas.