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Stephen Tompkinson's African Balloon Adventure

Stephen Tompkinson's African Balloon Adventure

2009•45m•Documentary
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Stephen Tompkinson and hot air balloon pilot Robin Batchelor embark on the journey of a lifetime across the African continent. They experience the amazing abundance and diversity of wildlife and explore the relationship between Africa's game and its people.

StatusEnded
Runtime45m
LanguageEN
First Air DateJun 7, 2009

Episodes

E145m

Tanzania

Setting off in Tanzania, they travel over the Ngorongoro Crater, where one of the world's densest concentrations of game inhabits an enormous extinct volcanic crater. Landing in the Serengeti, Stephen shadows a local vet on his rounds treating the wildlife of the famous national park. Then he takes to the air again, this time heading westward into the dense forests of Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park in search of one of the planet's most awe-inspiring animals - the mountain gorilla.

Jun 7, 2009

E245m

Rwanda

Stephen’s African Balloon Adventure continues to the mountains of Rwanda, and the world famous Victoria Falls. Along the way Stephen tracks a leopard using 21st Century technology, visits an elephant orphanage and has a close encounters with lions and a leopard.

Jun 14, 2009

E345m

Botswana to Namibia

In this final programme of the series Stephen continues his African Balloon Adventure, travelling from Botswana to Namibia. On the way he encounters crocodiles, elephants, vultures and comes across a baboon who thinks he is a goat.

Jun 21, 2009

Actors

Stephen Tompkinson

Stephen Tompkinson

Himself - Presenter

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