8-Day Masai Mara and Serengeti Migration Safari with Ngorongoro

• Pick up and drive via Narok to the Masai Mara National Reserve, offering wonderful scenery and plenty of game. It is perhaps the only region left in Kenya where the visitor may see animals in the same super-abundance as existed a century ago.

• Arrive for lunch at your lodge.

• Enjoy an afternoon game-viewing drive in this vast and expansive reserve teeming with game.

• Be on the lookout for the Big Five that Mara is famous for and which were the most sought-after animals in the early 20th century, when Kenya was a hunters' paradise.

• Spot lion, Cape buffalo, the savannah elephant, black rhino, and the elusive leopard. The vast savannah grasslands stretch as far as the eye can see and are home to impalas, Maasai giraffes, waterbucks, warthogs, Thompson and Grant's gazelles, topis, resident wildebeest, and many others.

Later in the evening, return for dinner and overnight at your tented lodge.

• Enjoy breakfast, then proceed on a full day of game-viewing drives and adventure. Be on the lookout for the Big Five that Maasai Mara is famous for. These include the lion, savannah (African) elephant, the Cape buffalo, the leopard, and the black rhino. We may even be so lucky as to witness a leopard or a cheetah sprint and make a kill.

• Return to the camp for dinner and overnight.

  • Optional activity: Balloon safari over the Mara plains followed by a champagne breakfast, or visit a traditional Masai Manyatta (off the beaten track) and experience the culture of this world-famous community. The Masai still live as they did for centuries - interact with these nomadic people and experience their way of life as you learn about their customs and traditions.

• Enjoy breakfast, then proceed on a full day of game-viewing drives and adventure. Be on the lookout for the Big Five that Maasai Mara is famous for. These include the lion, savannah (African) elephant, the Cape buffalo, the leopard, and the black rhino. We may even be so lucky as to witness a leopard or a cheetah sprint and make a kill.

• Return to the camp for dinner and overnight.

  • Optional activity: Balloon safari over the Mara plains followed by a champagne breakfast, or visit a traditional Masai Manyatta (off the beaten track) and experience the culture of this world-famous community. The Masai still live as they did for centuries - interact with these nomadic people and experience their way of life as you learn about their customs and traditions.

• Enjoy a hearty breakfast, then depart with picnic lunch boxes via the Isebania and Sirari border, where our guide drivers will help you through the immigration procedures before continuing into Tanzania.

• Covering an area of 14,763 square kilometers, the world-famous Serengeti National Park is Tanzania's oldest park and one of the world's last great wildlife refuges. The Serengeti ecosystem supports the greatest remaining concentration of plains game in Africa, including more than three million large mammals.

Arrive at the lodge for check-in, dinner, and overnight.

• This morning after breakfast, depart with picnic lunch boxes for a full day of game-viewing drives on the vast Serengeti plains.

• In the early morning and evening light, the Serengeti landscape is stunningly beautiful. The rolling plains and grasslands, stretching far into the horizon as far as the eye can see, are home to the black-maned lion, the savannah elephant, the Cape buffalo, wildebeest, the elusive leopard, cheetah, the spotted and striped hyena, the rhino, topi, Burchell's zebra, the Maasai giraffe, among many others.

• Serengeti National Park is one that can never disappoint. One is spoilt by the variety of bird and wildlife species in this game reserve during game-viewing drives.

  • Optional activity: Dawn balloon safari over the Serengeti plains ending with a champagne breakfast.

Enjoy dinner and overnight at our lodge.

• This morning after breakfast, depart with picnic lunch boxes for a full day of game-viewing drives on the vast Serengeti plains.

• In the early morning and evening light, the Serengeti landscape is stunningly beautiful. The rolling plains and grasslands, stretching far into the horizon as far as the eye can see, are home to the black-maned lion, the savannah elephant, the Cape buffalo, wildebeests, the elusive leopard, cheetah, the spotted and striped hyena, the rhino, topi, Burchell's zebra, the Maasai giraffe, among many others. Serengeti National Park is one that can never disappoint. One is spoilt by the variety of bird and wildlife species in this game reserve during game-viewing drives.

Enjoy dinner and overnight at our lodge.

• After breakfast, depart to Ngorongoro.

• Stop at the Oldupai Gorge, one of the most important prehistoric sites in the world, to learn about human evolution.

• Descend into the crater. Ngorongoro Crater has the largest unbroken caldera in the world. The crater is home to many species of wild game and birds. The birdlife, which includes the flamingo, is mainly seasonal and is also affected by the ratio of soda to the fresh water in Lake Magadi on the crater floor.

Dinner and overnight at crater lodge.

• Go for an early morning game drive, followed by breakfast, then depart to Arusha, arriving for lunch.

• Later, drop off at Kilimanjaro airport for a flight home or for a shared shuttle bus to Nairobi's JKIA airport.