This migration safari starts from Nairobi, the Kenya’s popular city. Depending on your travel plan, pick up on this Safari holiday can be from your hotel in Nairobi or Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and in this case, you will have to book a flight arriving in Nairobi in early morning hours.
Our representative driver/guide will pick you up from your hotel in Nairobi to transfer to you Masai Mara National Reserve. You will be briefed first upon your adventure to Africa’s greatest wildlife reserve before you embark on journey. Enjoy a drive through scenic views of the Nairobi suburbs, beautiful savannah grasslands and the plains of the Rift Valley. On the way to the reserve, you may have a stopover at the Great Rift Valley viewpoint for photography shortly after which you will continue the journey to the park.
Upon your arrival at the park, you will check in accommodation for lunch and refreshments. After the refreshment, you will then head out for an evening game drive and expect to see various wildlife species such as giant elephants, hippopotamus, lions, leopards, cheetahs, giraffes and so many more.
An evening sunset game drive in the Mara offers you an opportunity to view wildlife in the background of the beautiful African sunset. Return to accommodation after the delightful experience for dinner and overnight stay. Accommodation options include; Ashnil Mara camp, Sarova Mara game Camp, Matira Bush Camp, Entumoto Safari Camp, Cheetah Tented Camp, Fairmont Mara Safari Club, Mara Serena lodge and many more.
The next day will be spent while game viewing in Kenya’s leading Masai Mara National Reserve. You will embark on two game drives in the Mara, morning game drive and the afternoon game drive with organized bush breakfast in search of the big five and other wildlife species including the Masai giraffe, baboons, warthogs, Wildebeest, buffaloes, zebras, jackals, spotted hyenas, topi, impala, Hartebeests, Bat eared foxes, the crocodiles and hippopotamus of the Mara and Talek Rivers.
In case you travel during the months of July-September, you will witness the thrilling Great wildebeest Migration as it happens in the Mara. This natural movement of over 4 million grazers from Serengeti National Park in Tanzania to Masai Mara National Reserve is the sole reason why many visitors opt to come to Masai Mara National Reserve at this time of the year.
However, if someone is not interested in the second game drive, can have a cultural visit to the Maasai tribe community within the park. This visit grants you a chance to learn about the Maasai culture, customs, ways of living and their exercising cultural dance. After the amazing full day game viewing experience or a cultural visit, transfer back to lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
Have an early morning breakfast and en-route game drive that takes you to the Isebania border crossing. After the immigration formalities are done with our guide taking care of all the necessary documentation, you will be handled to your new Tanzanian guide/driver and continue on into the world-famous Serengeti National Game Park for an afternoon migration safari game drive in the northern Serengeti.
Serengeti National Game Park is a home to huge populations of wildebeest, zebras, antelopes and many more animals. The picturesque Serengeti is an excellent place to spot predators such as lions, leopards, cheetahs as well as herbivores including elephants, hippos, giraffes among others.
Accommodation options where to have your meals and sleepover while in Serengeti National Game Park include; Osinoni tented camp, Namiri Plains, Four Seasons, Dunia Camp, Singita Mara River Tented Camp, Olakira Migration Camp, Lemala Ewanjan Tented Camp, Mbali Mbali Soroi Serengeti Lodge, Nomad Lamai Serengeti, Serengeti Pioneer Camp, Sanctuary Kichakani Camp, Four Seasons and many more.
You will wake before dawn for an unforgettable sunrise game drive. Marvel at how the sun sets fire to the savannah as you go in search of big cats on the hunt for their morning meal. The entire day you will spend it out on the plains of the Serengeti searching for the Big Five and the movements of the famous Wildebeest Migration.
Weaving through Kopjes upon which lion’s sunbath themselves, you will see some of the world’s most iconic wildlife against the open plains and big sky of Tanzania’s crown. You may depart for Arusha this very day and call it the end of the safari or return to the lodge for dinner and leave Serengeti the following day.