6 Days, 5 Nights Masai Mara Wildebeest Migration Safari

Travel to Masai Mara after breakfast.  A short drive from Nairobi, you will begin your descent down the floor of the Great Rift Valley. You will have a short photographic stop over at the view point of this geographical phenomenon that stretches all the way from Lebanon to Mozambique and which divides Kenya into two segments; East and West. You will get a few minutes to stretch your legs at the Masai town of Narok before driving further into Masai Mara, Check in and lunch.
This evening, you will enjoy your first game drive in this vast reserve Wildlife, both predator and prey abound here, and depending on your luck, you will see some of the BIG 5 this evening. Dinner and Overnight stay at Mara Serena Safari Lodge/ similar. Meals: Lunch, Dinner.

You will have full day to enjoy in the Masai Mara. Embark on migration trail both in the reserve and along the banks of the Mara River as you also look for Big Cat sightings.

From June to October, the Mara is the theatre of the world’s greatest wildlife spectacle- The wildebeest migration. From June, the migrant herds which are over 1.2 million, accompanied by Zebras and other antelopes begin arriving in Masai Mara from northern Serengeti. More numbers continue arriving over the following weeks, with August being the month when the mottled plains of the Mara are flooded with marauding Gnus and the banks of the crocodile infested Mara River become the scene where dramatic crossings from one side of the reserve to the other take place regularly.

You may come across new prides of Lions, Elephant herds and Cheetahs or sight the ones you had seen before in a different part of the Reserve.

You can opt for a cultural experience by visiting an authentic Masai Homestead in a village bordering the Masai Mara. It is always enriching to learn about the fascinating culture of the Masai, and how them and their livestock have co-existed with wildlife over the years.
Overnight stay at Mara Serena Safari Lodge / similar. Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.

Another day exploring the expansive reserve teeming with wildlife.

The Masai Mara is probably one of Kenya’s most visited reserve with an extraordinary density of animals including the Big five and many other varieties of plains game.
We will spend a full day in and around the unending rolling plains of the Mara. This is one of the richest predator areas of the Mara and will be our focus for this day, besides the massive migration of wildebeest.

However, this is one of the most lush reserves in Africa and we will probably see lots of Elephants, Hippos, Masai giraffe, common zebra, wildebeest, impala, Thompson’s and Grant’s gazelles, Topi, Black-backed jackal, spotted hyena and more during these two days.
You will be treated to a bush picnic lunch and return to the lodge with a game drive en route.

Overnight stay at Mara Serena Safari Lodge / similar. Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.

This day, you will have an early morning game drive, followed by breakfast. Then departure to Nairobi Sarova Panafric.

Breakfast followed by transfer to the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on time for your departure flight home.