The Masai Mara is Kenya’s most renowned game reserve, famed for offering the chance to see "the Big Five" along with a diverse array of other wildlife species. A highlight for visitors is witnessing the spectacular great wildebeest migration, which typically occurs from July to October each year. After your safari in Kenya, you will visit Tanzania in Serengeti, and Ngorongoro crater.
Upon arrival at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (NBO) you will be met by Signature Safaris’ representative and drive you to your accommodation in Nairobi for overnight stay waiting for your adventures to start on the following day.
Destination: Nairobi City
Accommodation: Eka Hotel
Meal plan: Bed & Breakfast
Depart early in the morning for the Maasai Mara National Reserve, one of the last places on Earth where wildlife thrives in numbers reminiscent of the historic plains and forests of Africa. As the northern extension of the expansive Serengeti ecosystem, the Mara is famed for the spectacular seasonal migration of thousands of wildebeest, zebras, and their predators. Arrive in time for lunch, followed by an afternoon game drive.
Destination: Masai Mara National Reserve
Accommodation: Zebra Plains Mara Camp
Meal plan: Full Board (Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner)
After breakfast, we embark on a full-day game drive with a packed lunch provided. The reserve is renowned for its black-maned lions and abundant resident wildlife, and it's one of the few places where you can spot the Big Five during a morning game drive. Many cheetahs in the reserve are so accustomed to vehicles that they often seek shade beneath them and occasionally climb onto the roofs for a better view of potential prey. Bird enthusiasts will be thrilled to know that almost 500 species have been recorded here, including 16 species of eagles, numerous hawks and falcons, 6 species of vultures, 8 species of storks, 4 species of bustards (including the Kori bustard, the world's heaviest flying bird), and 9 species of sunbirds.
Destination: Masai Mara National Reserve
Accommodation: Zebra Plains Mara Camp Camp
Meal plan: Full Board (Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner)
You'll have a pre-morning game drive and afterward, enjoy a late breakfast. Then depart Masai Mara with a picnic lunch to Serengeti National Park on the northern cost. Early morning after breakfast at your accommodation, we will drive straight to the far north of Serengeti National Park known as Kogatende to follow the great migration of more than a million of wildebeests accompanied by hundred thousands of Zebras and antelopes. During July – October,the wildebeest are in the northern Serengeti plains, and you have a chance of seeing up to thousands crossing the great Mara River. As the sight of the wildebeest crossing the so dramatic, it is considered by many the most desirable time to see the migration. You will not only see the migration of wildebeests but also other animals such as predators hunting their prey and other birds’ species at the area. After lunch and extensive game viewing, you will drive straight to your carefully selected accommodation for dinner and overnight.
Destination: Northern Serengeti National Park (Kogatende)
Accommodation: Heritage Mara Kogatende
Meal plan: Full Board (B, L & D)
Early morning after breakfast at your accommodation, we will proceed our game drive on the northern Serengeti (Kogatende) following the great migration. You will spend this full day on the northern Serengeti for game viewing and if you’re lucky enough you can spot the crossing at the Mara river as well as crocodiles hunting their prey during the crossing. After lunch and game drive, you will head straight for your accommodation for dinner and overnight.
Destination: Northern Serengeti National Park (Kogatende)
Accommodation: Heritage Mara Kogatende
Meal plan: Full Board (B, L & D)
Early morning after breakfast, you will drive straight from Northern Serengeti to central Serengeti and arrive in the late afternoon at your accommodation for relaxation, dinner and overnight at your accommodation. If you choose to do a game drive at the central it is quite possible depending on your preferences.
Destination: Serengeti central
Accommodation: Embalakai Authentic Camps
Meal plan: Full Board (B, L & D)
Today you will depart early after your delicious breakfast to Ngorongoro
crater. The Ngorongoro Crater is a breathtakingly beautiful setting and the
best place in East Africa to see the Big Five. It is one of the most
beautiful natural wildlife safari sites in the world and an exceptional
place to interact with people from the Maasai tribe.On reaching the crater’s
edge, the 20 km diameter caldera opens up before you in all its stunning
glory and you will descend into the crater on an adventurous trail. This
World Heritage Site is seasonally home to over 25,000 animals in including a
wide range of birds’ species, hyenas and the endangered black rhino. Hot
Lunch will be served at a picnic spot at the hippo pool and after that you
will continue to explore the crater.
After exploration you will ascend the crater and drive straight to Arusha
airport or Kilimanjaro Airport for your onwards flight.
Destination: Ngorongoro crater
Accommodation: Marera Valley Lodge
Meal plan: Full Board (B, L & D)
Early morning after breakfast, you will drive from Karatu at your hotel to Arusha where you will pick a private transfer to Nairobi Airport
Destination: Ngorongoro crater
Meal plan: Breakfast & Lunch
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