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Everything you need to know about the Longleat Sky Safari described as being 'most spectacular' to date

It will be Europe's largest annual hot air ballooning event, with participants from all over the world

• 15:27, 3 SEP 2019
• Updated 15:30, 3 SEP 2019

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More than 200 hot air balloons from around the world will be ascending from Longleat next week as part of Europe’s largest annual hot air balloon event.

Now in its fourth year, Sky Safari is one of the Wiltshire attraction’s most popular events; featuring spectacular mass launches, tethered daytime displays and dramatic night glows.

Pilots from as far afield as the USA, United Arab Emirates and Japan will be taking part in the event, running from Friday, September 13 to Sunday, September 15, as part of more than 160 individual teams - some of which will be flying multiple hot air balloons.

The star of this year’s event is Adelaide, a giant koala, which will be taking to the skies to celebrate the opening of Longleat’s new Koala Creek which is home to a group of the iconic Australian marsupials.

Adelaide is part of an aerial ‘Safari Park’ which also features Simbaloo the lion, a cheetah called Duma, a panther, a wolf, a fox, a parrot an owl and a guinea pig.

There will be as many as 30 other special shaped balloons making an appearance over the weekend; either flying or taking part in tethered displays with everything from a flying recreation of the Brandenburg Gate, a giant emoji and a full-sized version of the famous animated balloon from Disney’s ‘Up’.

Night glows, where tethered balloons are choreographed to a specially selected soundtrack, lighting up the night sky as their burners fire up in time to the music, will be taking place on Friday and Saturday evenings.

“This year’s Sky Safari is set to be the biggest and most spectacular to date with more than 200 balloons due to take to the skies throughout the event,” said Steve Mytton from Longleat.

“We are also very much looking forward to officially welcoming Adelaide the koala to Longleat along with a menagerie of other animal-shaped hot air balloons,” he added.

Longleat has partnered with Exclusive Ballooning to put on the event which has attracted current and former world champions in hot air ballooning from Japan, USA and the UK.

Sky Safari access is included as part of any day ticket at Longleat but due to the popularity of the event, visitors are advised to book in advance at http://www.longleat.co.uk/sky-safari to avoid disappointment

Where: Longleat Safari and Adventure Park

When: Friday, September 13 to Sunday, September 15

How to book: Visit the Longleat website here .

Daily Schedule:

• 7:00am – 8:00am:  Morning mass balloon launch
• 10am – 11:30am : Morning tethered balloon display
• 11:30am - 12:30pm:  Model ballooning display
• 2:30pm – 4pm:  Afternoon balloon tethering display
• 5pm – 6:30pm:  Evening mass balloon launch
• 7:45pm (*Friday and Saturday only):  Night Glow

Hot air ballooning is weather dependent, and timings and launches may be subject to change. In particularly adverse conditions some launches and displays may have to be postponed or cancelled.

For full details and to book online visit the Longleat website . Visitors will be able to keep up to speed on latest flying conditions on event days via the Longleat mobile app and Longleat Facebook page.

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Longleat’s Sky Safari runs this weekend led by the famous lion shaped balloon

This weekend of family fun will once again feature a host of hot air balloon taking to the skies above Longleat for the Estate’s very own hot air balloon festival.

Longleat Estate’s Sky Safari will run from Friday 8 until Sunday 10 September 2023.

The perfect day out for all the family, this is a balloon fest with a quirky, Longleat twist giving visitors of all ages the chance to witness hot air balloons shaped like their safari favourites – including koala, wolf, parrot and owl – in all their glory. With breath-taking photos to be taken and a musical night glow – this is a sight not to be missed.

Tickets for the Sky Safari can be found HERE .

???? SKY SAFARI SCHEDULE ???? With just one week until our famous balloon festival takes to the skies here at Longleat, here's all the timings you need to know to make the most of your day ???? pic.twitter.com/U8UUlQw14L — Longleat (@Longleat) September 1, 2023

Highlights for the weekend include the mass launches where more than 100 balloons are launched over Longleat House and the surrounding grounds. The event place in both the morning and the afternoon, giving you plenty of time to explore the park’s other attractions.

The Night Glow is also sure to prove an enchanting spectacle with all your favourite balloons lit against the night sky to an amazing soundtrack – a truly magical experience and the perfect climax to a perfect day out.

The daily schedule for the weekend is morning mass launch (7 AM), tethered hot air balloon displays (10.30 AM), model ballooning (11.30 AM), tethered hot air balloon displays (2.30 PM), entertainment with fire performances and Jamma de Samba (4.45 PM), evening launch (5 PM), Night Glow (8 PM).

Day tickets are priced as follows: Adults (16 +) for £39.95, children (3-15) for £29.95, infants (0-2) FREE and carers FREE. There is also the option of a two-day ticket. Secure yours HERE .

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The skies above wiltshire were filled with dozens of spectacular hot air balloons as longleat staged its annual sky safari..

More than 200 hot air balloons from around the world ascended from Longleat as part of Europe’s largest annual hot air balloon event.

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Now in its fourth year, Sky Safari is one of the Wiltshire attraction’s most popular events; featuring spectacular mass launches, tethered daytime displays and dramatic night glows.

Pilots from as far afield as the USA, United Arab Emirates and Japan took part in the event as part of more than 160 individual teams; some of which flew multiple hot air balloons.

The star of this year’s event was Adelaide, a giant koala, which took to the skies to celebrate the opening of Longleat’s new Koala Creek which is home to a group of the iconic Australian marsupials.

Adelaide was part of an aerial ‘Safari Park’ which also featured Simbaloo the lion, a cheetah called Duma, a panther, a wolf, a fox, a parrot an owl and a guinea pig.

There were many other special shaped balloons making an appearance over the weekend; either flying or taking part in tethered displays with everything from a flying recreation of the Brandenburg Gate, a giant emoji and a full-sized version of the famous animated balloon from Disney’s ‘Up’.

Night glows, where tethered balloons are choreographed to a specially selected soundtrack, lighting up the night sky as their burners fire up in time to the music took place on the Friday and Saturday evenings.

Longleat has partnered with Exclusive Ballooning to put on the event which has attracted current and former world champions in hot air ballooning from Japan, USA and the UK.

Sky Safari is included as part of a Day Ticket to Longleat .

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Almost 250 hot air balloons from all corners of the world ascended from Longleat in September 2019, making Sky Safari Europe’s largest annual hot air balloon event!

Due to Covid-19 and the restrictions in place we took the difficult but appropriate decision to postpone The Exclusive Cup for 2020, replacing the event with a drive-in night glow, the first of its kind in the UK.

In 2021, we returned to Longleat with a series of spectacular night glows, with over 100 teams participating in our signature choreographed glows over three nights.

In 2022, Exclusive Ballooning returned with a full Sky Safari event, featuring two bespoke atmospheric night-glows crafted in memoriam of HM Queen Elizabeth II.

Over 120 balloons returned to Sky Safari in 2023, featuring mass ascents, competition flights and spectacular night glows.

Plans are underway for the next Sky Safari event, with details to be announced in due course.

Sky Safari hot air balloon festival wows visitors to Longleat - recap

Festival goers were treated to a weekend of action at the annual hot air balloon festival

• Updated 13:51, 12 SEP 2022

One of Europe's most impressive annual hot air balloon festivals returned to Longleat this weekend (September 9 to 11). Longleat 's spectacular Sky Safari hot air balloon featured hundreds of balloons from all over the world.

The park near Warminster announced that the event would still go ahead in the wake of the Queen's death on Thursday (September 11). Unfortunately Longleat had to take the decision to cancel Thursday evening's (September 8) Annual Pass Exclusive Mass Launch and Night Glow due to weather conditions.

And then further to this, Friday's events were also called off due to strong wind and rain forecasts. However after a successful day of ballooning on Saturday (September 10), the rest of the weekend went ahead pretty successfully.

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Graham Bloomfield who had been staying at Center Parcs for the week said on Saturday: "It was a fantastic morning, well worth the early start. Longleat is a great venue for ballooning, for balloonists and public, there is a lot of space in a beautiful natural setting."

Festival goers were treated to morning and afternoon launches as well as the anticipated Night Glow event. In a special tribute to the Queen. Longleat took a moment on Saturday and Sunday evening to pause and remember the Queen. A sombre display included the national anthem and words for Her Majesty.

They will be joined by penguins Splash, Puddles and Tall Steve alongside Wes the wolf, a cheetah, a panther, a sheep and a flying rabbit. Other unusual flying objects include a screwdriver, a whiskey bottle, a coffee jar and a giant pair of lips.

Catch up on the events as they happened at Sky Safari this weekend in the blog below. Scroll down to read.

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Your incredible photos from the weekend

This weekend's highly anticipated event wowed visitors to Longleat this weekend. Despite some uncertain weather conditions hot air balloons were launched into Wiltshire skies on Saturday and Sunday (September 10 to 11).

The balloon festival featured hundreds of hot air balloons from all over the world, including Longleat's very own penguins, wolf, cheetah and panther balloons. Locals caught sight of lots of other unusual flying objects including a screwdriver, a whiskey bottle, a coffee jar and a giant pair of lips.

Click here to see some of your incredible photos from Sky Safari this weekend

Wind picking up

Longleat are holding out hope that the afternoon launch and Night Glow will continue as planned after the wind has picked up on site. They said at 3.10pm

"We hope you've had a great day with us so far at today's Sky Safari! Though the wind is picking up here on-site, we are currently preparing for tethering on the oval. We are continuing to monitor the weather to ensure safe conditions for our pilots.

"With the current wind, we will continue to closely monitor the conditions for both the afternoon launch and Night Glow, so please continue to keep an eye on our social media for updates and an ear out for announcements from our commentator about this evening's displays".

More of your pictures

Sunday morning mass ascent from Longleat Sky Safari. A quick 15 minute flight in G-LIPS this morning alongside many others. More pics Sunday morning mass ascent from Longleat Sky Safari. A quick 15 minute flight in G-LIPS this morning alongside many others. pic.twitter.com/Zct55YA4js — MJ Ballooning (@mjballooning) September 11, 2022

Balloons over Longleat House

Longleat sky safari #longleat #skysafari #wiltshire #frome pic.twitter.com/hFyUh1W0XA — Astro Mike (@xRMMike) September 11, 2022

Wind gusts forecasted

There are some wind gusts foreacasted this afternoon, which Longleat say they are "closely monitoring" ahead of the afternoon mass launch. Updates to follow.

Rise and fly!

SKY SAFARI WEATHER UPDATE: Early AM 11th September Rise and fly! We are all set for a morning mass launch with conditions looking favourable from 7am. Tethering is also set to begin from 10.30am on the Oval next to the House. Currently there are some wind gusts forecast... — Longleat (@Longleat) September 11, 2022

'Lovely day out'

Latest for sunday, night glow update, a brilliant view, balloons at longleat.

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Leave early to avoid traffic

Following a successful day of ballooning, Longleat expect this evening's Night Glow to be a popular event. They urge guests to the park to leave early to avoid traffic.

A spokesperson said: "Following a fun day of balloons we are delighted to announce that our afternoon mass launch will be taking place between 5:15pm - 7pm. Although there are some small shower risks, we will remain monitoring weather and are also looking good to do our Night Glow from 8pm".

"We are expecting the Night Glow to be extremely popular so we advising those planning to attend get to us early to avoid traffic and delays coming in to the park" they added.

Conditions looking good for afternoon launch

In an update, Longleat have said that conditions are looking favourable for the mass launch this afternoonm and for the Night Glow later this evening.

We have had a fantastic morning of mass launch and tethering taking place on the Oval (by Longleat House). Tethering is continuing through till 4pm today. Conditions for a mass launch this afternoon are favourable and we are continuing to monitor the weather. We are also looking good for our Night Glow with the current forecast!

Photos of morning launch

"It was a fantastic morning, well worth the early start"

Graham Bloomfield has been at Center Parcs for the week and managed to catch the morning launch in action. He said: "It was a fantastic morning, well worth the early start. Longleat is a great venue for ballooning, for balloonists and public, there is a lot of space in a beautiful natural setting."

And they're up!

Great flight from @Longleat for #skysafari this morning! pic.twitter.com/0jxQsj7nCB — Steve Donkin (@OverMuchoGrande) September 10, 2022

Morning launch goes ahead

Tomorrow's forecast promising

Longleat are holding out hope the event will go ahead tomorrow. They said at 2.39pm: "For tomorrow's forecast, things are looking much brighter and we should hopefully be on for a full day of ballooning.

"We will be sharing another update later today about tomorrow's weather conditions with a morning update to follow at 6.30am

Evening mass launch and Night Glow cancelled

SKY SAFARI WEATHER UPDATE - Friday 9th September, 2.30pm​ Due to strong gusts taking place over the afternoon and heavy rain forecast until 10pm this evening, we have made the difficult decision to cancel this evening's mass launch and Night Glow. — Longleat (@Longleat) September 9, 2022

Afternoon launch 'unlikely to go ahead'

The park announced in a statement that it was 'unlikely' that today's (Friday September 9) afternoon mass launch would be able to go ahead due to "strong wind and rain forecasts". They said:

At present, it looks unlikely that the afternoon mass launch will be able to go ahead due to strong wind and rain forecasts. We will continue to keep you updated on this evening’s Night Glow. We'll keep our fingers crossed for better ballooning conditions, but please keep an eye out for our next weather update on social media this afternoon.

Read the full story here .

Morning tethering cancelled

Longleat said in a statement this morning (Friday September 9) that this morning's tethering was cancelled due to poor weather conditions. They said: "Unfortunately due to poor weather conditions, this morning's tethering is cancelled".

Longleat's Sky Safari set to go ahead

Longleat's annual hot air balloon event, Sky Safari will go ahead as planned this weekend after the news of Queen Elizabeth II passing. The nation has entered a period of mourning after the news that the Queen died at Balmoral yesterday afternoon (September 8).

The safari park near Warminster announced in a tweet yesterday that the event would go ahead as planned, with Longleat remaining open. A spokesperson said "We have taken the decision that Longleat will remain open this weekend and our Sky Safari event will continue as planned".

Weather forecast cancels Friday's mass launch

Posted on Longleat's Facebook page, some sad news:

SKY SAFARI WEATHER UPDATE – Friday 9th September Following a continuous review of the weather, unfortunately we have had to take the decision to cancel tomorrow's early morning mass launch. We will continue to keep you posted with weather updates for the rest of Friday and the remainder of the weekend.

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Weather update

The Met Office weather forecast for the weekend is currently as follows...

Friday (September 9): Cloudy chaning to heavy showers by lunchtime. Highs of 19C. Lows of 13C.

Saturday (September 10): Cloudy chaning to sunny intervals by early evening. Highs of 20C. Lows of 11C.

Sunday (September 11): Fog changing to cloudy by late morning. Highs of 20C. Lows of 15C.

Top tips for the weekend

Longleat have handily listed some of their top tips for the weekend:

• Stay tuned for weather updates posted on social media throughout the weekend! Sky Safari is hugely popular so we highly recommend you book your tickets in advance: https://bit.ly/2Lcodk r
• There is still Annual Pass Restricted Day Ticket availability for Saturday 10th September and we've also added more Annual Pass availability for the 9th and 11th September. Head to the Annual Pass Zone to book: https://bit.ly/2caadXo
• We’ll have tethered balloon displays, mass launches and a night glow each day. If you'd like to take a look at our full ballooning schedule, you can do so here: https://bit.ly/3x7WGcH
• All hot air balloon flying is weather dependent, which means that the hot air balloons will be unable to take to the sky in windy or wet conditions. The good news is that there is still plenty of attractions to keep you occupied if some balloon activity can't go ahead as planned.
• For those who want to come to the park to see the balloons when it's a bit quieter, you can come along to our morning mass ascents which take place daily at 7am. They are quite often the best flying conditions and most spectacular. These are included with your Day Ticket or Annual Passes (Annual Passes excl. 10th September).
• There will be food and drink concessions up by the main viewing area, as well as additional toilet facilities.
• And last but not least, don't forget to use #SkySafari so we can find all your fantastic photo

Annual Pass Exclusive Mass Launch and Night Glow cancelled

The Annual Pass Exclusive Mass Launch and Night Glow on Thursday September 8 has sadly been cancelled due to weather conditions. Read more here .

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