Mountain Scenic Picnic Flight

Duration of excursion, approx 2 hrs.

The helicopter used for the mountain picnic is a Bell Jetranger, which can carry 4 passengers or a Longranger, which can carry 6 passengers, at any one time. The mountain scenic route is from Nelspruit, Mpumalanga to one of the lodges to pick up passengers and fly to the escarpment, via the 30m high Pinnacle Rock outcrop.

Then the flight continues on to the breath-taking Lisbon Falls where we fly low and slow into the falls and then vertically up to the top. Lisbon Falls in Mpumalanga tumble down a 92m cliff into a large pool. The 80m high Berlin Falls follows an easy flight on to the dramatic rock formations of the Blyde River Canyon, one of Mpumalanga’s main attractions. Few will ever forget their first glimpse of the spectacular canyon. The gorge is the third largest in the world and one of South Africa's scenic wonders. The Blyde River Canyon is the kind of place where brochures and guide books run out of original adjectives to describe the fresh mountain scenery and magnificent panoramic views.

We then fly around the back end of the Three Rondavels from where you get a perfect view of the entire Blyde River Canyon. Then low level over a natural forest through a hole where the world falls away and you have vertical cliffs next to you. Round the back end of the three Rondavels and a perfect view of the Low down onto the Treur River following the bends up and over the Chums Falls, and then onto land at an area called the Pinnacle overlooking the Mpumalanga Lowveld.

You can stop for a delicious picnic and enjoy the magnificent views. The route then takes you along the Mac Mac River over the 64m high Mac Mac Falls, where we swoop down into the forested gorge and follow the river to the end, and turn around a cascade you can only see from the air.

A sedate flight home from there to the lodge to drop off the passengers and return to Nelspruit

See also :

Helicopter Adventure Flights

Charters and Transfers

Game Census & Surveys

Aerial Photography

Mountain Scenic Picnic Flight

Waterfall Wonder Flight