8-Day Masai Mara, Serengeti and Ngorongoro Migration Safari

• Get picked 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 visitors 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 wildlife. Be on the lookout for the Big Five that Mara is famous for and that were the most sought-after animals in the early 20th century, when Kenya was a hunters' paradise. These include the lion, Cape buffalo, savannah elephant, black rhino and elusive leopard. The vast savannah grasslands, stretching as far as the eye can see, are also home to impalas, Maasai giraffes, waterbucks, warthogs, Thompson and Grant's gazelles, topis, resident wildebeests and many others.

• Later in the evening, return for dinner and an overnight stay 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, Cape buffalo, leopard and black rhino. You may even be lucky enough to witness a leopard or a cheetah sprint and make a kill.

• Return to the camp for dinner and an overnight stay.

  • 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 Masai Mara is famous for. These include the lion, savannah (African) elephant, Cape buffalo, leopard and black rhino. You may even be lucky enough to witness a leopard or a cheetah sprint and make a kill.

• Return to the camp for dinner and an overnight stay.

  • 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 your driver-guides will help you through the immigration procedures before continuing into Tanzania. Covering an area of 14,763 square kilometres, 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 an overnight stay.

• 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, savannah elephant, Cape buffalo, wildebeests, elusive leopard, cheetah, spotted and striped hyena, rhino, topi, Burchell's zebra and the Maasai giraffe, among many others. Serengeti National Park is one that can never disappoint. Visitors are spoilt by the variety of bird and wildlife species in this game reserve during the game-viewing drives.

• Enjoy dinner and an overnight stay at your lodge.

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

• 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, savannah elephant, Cape buffalo, wildebeests, elusive leopard, cheetah, spotted and striped hyena, rhino, topi, Burchell's zebra and the Maasai giraffe, among many others. Serengeti National Park is one that can never disappoint. Visitors are spoilt by the variety of bird and wildlife species in this game reserve during the game-viewing drives.

• Enjoy dinner and an overnight stay at your lodge.

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

• After breakfast, depart for Ngorongoro.

• Stop at 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 and has been described as one of the great natural wonders of the world. Eight million years ago, Ngorongoro Crater was an active volcano, but its cone collapsed, forming the crater, which is 610 metres deep, 20 kilometres in diameter and covers an area of 311 sq. km. Spectacular as it is, the crater accounts for just a tenth of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. The crater is home to many species of wild game and birds. The birdlife, which includes flamingos, is mainly seasonal and is also affected by the ratio of soda to fresh water in Lake Magadi on the crater floor.

Dinner and overnight at the crater lodge.

• An early morning game drive is followed by breakfast before departing for Arusha, arriving in time for lunch.

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