12 Days Trailing Great Migration Serengeti To Masai Mara

Arrive Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. You are met by Hallmark Travel Planners representative and transfer to the EKA Hotel (15 KM/approximately 30 minutes) for your overnight stay. If your flights allow, you will be picked up for dinner and the Carnivore Restaurant. Overnight: EKA Hotel, Nairobi.

Early breakfast at the hotel.  Depart for Amboseli. You’ll always be able to see your next destination in the distance, with Amboseli’s wonderful views of Mount Kilimanjaro’s snowcapped peaks in neighbouring Tanzania. Today you’ll arrive in time for lunch at Amboseli AA Lodge, surrounded by open plains in some of the finest elephant-watching country in the world. Then you’ll set off on a game drive in this park that is known as ‘the land of giants’. Stay: Amboseli AA Lodge.

Today, you are set for a full day of African safari activities the Amboseli.  After breakfast, leave with picnic lunch boxes for the safari activities in the park. Return to the lodge in the early afternoon.  Early dinner is scheduled on this day. After dinner, leave for night game drive.  Later return to the lodge for overnight.

After breakfast at the lodge, you’ll transfer to the Kenya/Tanzania Namanga border. Once you have cleared immigration, you will change vehicles and guides and continue on to Arusha for lunch, and then on to  Karatu, very close to one of Tanzania’s best national parks. Stay: Farm of Dreams Lodge –

Early breakfast followed by a game drive in Lake Manyara. Picnic lunch within the park.   After lunch, by mid afternoon,  depart for Ngorongoro Crater, arriving at your lodge in the early evening.  The lodge is located on the crater rim and enjoys spectacular views and sunsets. Stay:  Rhino lodge.

Today you’ll depart early on a morning game drive down into the crater. Discover the diverse areas of forest, swamp lands, lakes and open grasslands in this volcanic caldera that’s home to the densest concentration of wildlife in Africa. There is good game viewing year-round, as most animals do not leave the crater. You might also spot Maasai tribesmen guiding their cattle down the steep crater walls to graze. Return to the lodge for dinner and overnight. Stay: Rhino Lodge.

After breakfast you’ll set off for the Serengeti, stopping en route to visit Olduvai Gorge – a rich archaeological site where evidence of the first signs of human life was found. Travel on to the Serengeti  to arrive in time for lunch followed by your first game drive in one of Africa’s most iconic wildlife-viewing areas. Hope to spot the national park’s resident big cats as well as the Big Five among its rolling plains.

Return to the Mbalageti Lodge for the night. This unique lodge is earthy in colour on the outside, with a flat roof offering the optimum spot for sundowners, and houses a vibrant interior and spacious rooms. Stay:  Mbalageti Lodge.

Today you will enjoy morning and afternoon game drives in the Serengeti. There’s also the option for a hot-air balloon safari over the Serengeti plains. You’ll rise early and take off at dawn in order to witness sunrise over the vast savannah. Stay: Mbalageti Lodge.

We plan to depart very early today. It is going to be a relatively long day, and drive. We leave with picnic lunch boxes. After an early breakfast depart for Kenya-Tanzania border at Isebania (300 KM/approximately 5 hours), where we cross back into Kenya and head for the breathtaking beauty of the Masai Mara National Reserve (100KM/approximately 3 hours – travelling time depends on game viewing opportunities).

Each year the Mara explodes into life, as the annual migration of great herds of wildebeest journey from the Serengeti to fresh pastures in the north. Between July and October the Mara River becomes the setting for the crossing of some 1.3 million animals, bringing with them the inevitable predators and the inevitable dramas. Dinner and Overnight Mara  River Camp.

On arrival transfer to the Mara  River Camp for a stay of 3 nights. Dinner and Overnight Mara River Camp.

This day is packed with safari activities including a local village visit.

With almost every species of animal great and small in the park, this is one of Africa’s premier wildlife areas and today we enjoy both morning and afternoon game drives in search of the Big Cats and the  ‘Big Five’ (lion, leopard, buffalo, elephant and rhino).

The heartland of the Masai, presents a landscape where Africa is laid bare in all its majesty. Here the endless struggle for survival is played out across the vast open plains and riverine forests of this captivating land.  Dinner and overnight at Mara River Camp

On this day, you may opt for the Hot Air balloon safari (extra cost).
Those not talking part on the balloon flight excursion will enjoy another day of safari activities in the Mara,  either full day following the migration or 2 extend game drives, subject to group consensus. Dinner and overnight at Mara River Camp.

Breakfast at your camp.  Depart for Nairobi to arrive with picnic lunch boxes to arrive in the  early afternoon. Transfer to  the airport for flight out of Nairobi.

Tour Price Per Person

Single Room Supplement – US$672 per person

Rates are subject to change with notice.