Tour Overview
The Masai Mara was recently named the Seventh Wonder of the World. It’s one of the world’s last remaining ecosystems harmonizing animal and nature. Mara is where you’ll have one of those breath-taking, heart-stopping moments, of a million teeming wildebeest making their annual migration across the Mara, and your first face to face encounter with the Big Five of Kenya.
Game drives are delightful and our informative Guides ensure that you sight most, if not all of Kenya’s Big Five and other plains Game. There is also the Maasai Cultural Village where you can experience firsthand, one of the few remaining ancient great cultures of the world.
Game drives are delightful and our informative Guides ensure that you sight most, if not all of Kenya’s Big Five and other plains Game. There is also the Maasai Cultural Village where you can experience firsthand, one of the few remaining ancient great cultures of the world.
Included/Exclude
Park fees (For non-residents)
All activities (Unless labeled as optional)
All accommodation (Unless listed as upgrade)
A professional driver/guide
All transportation (Unless labeled as optional)
All Taxes/VAT
Roundtrip airport transfer
Meals (As specified)
Drinks (As specified in the day-by-day section)
International flights (From/to home)
Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
Tips (Tipping guideline US$10.00 pp per day)
Personal items (Souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)
Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fee
Tour Plan
Depart Nairobi at 0800hrs and drive north down the escarpment of the Great Rift Valley. We take a brief stop at Viewpoint for a few camera shots of this amazing natural phenomenon. The history of this valley dates back to thousands of years during some great earth movements that caused massive shifting of the earth’s foundation rocks. This massive valley stretches from the Middle East down through East Africa to Mozambique in Southern Africa holding along great lakes. (e.g. Victoria, Turkana, Baringo, Bogoria, Nakuru, Naivasha, Elementaita, Magadi, Natron, Tanganyika, etc). Drive through the Great Rift Valley, the dramatic landscape and the plains inhabited by the Maasai pastoralists and across the ‘bread basket’ of Kenya covered with acres of wheat and barley. We’ll stop for refuelling, relaxation and for a sumptuous buffet lunch at Narok town before climbing the western wall entering Hemingway’s country; “Serengeti Plains”. The Masai Mara Game Reserve adjoins Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park. On arrival proceed to Camp/Lodge for check in.
At 4pm proceed for an evening game drive, tracking various animal species and birds with your driver/guide. Dinner and overnight at your choosen accommodation.
After breakfast, start a full day of tracking game with your Tropical Wild Expeditions guide in this Reserve which borders Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park as only an artificial border separates the two.
Meaning dotted plains in the Maasai language, Mara is a vast area with scattered pockets of Acacia woodland inhabiting a wide variety of fauna. The Masai Mara is renowned for staging the Great Migration, recently named as the seventh wonder of the modern world.
A full day is spent game viewing across the rich, tree studded grassland and rolling hills. This reserve is the most visited Park in Kenya and the best for game as it has an extensive road and track network, which allows excellent photography and close viewing opportunities. The famous Mara is renowned for its great herds of plains game, black manned Lions, Leopards and Cheetahs. It also has numerous Elephants and virtually every type of wildlife to be found in Kenya. Antelopes, Wildebeests, Zebras and Maasai Giraffes can be seen as well as scavengers like Hyenas and Vultures. Bird life is also prolific with over 450 species having been recorded. The sighting of Rhino and Leopard cannot be guaranteed and luck is a necessary factor as they are sparsely numbered, very shy and elusive.
Enjoy a picnic lunch besides the Mara River as you watch Hippos and with luck Crocodiles basking on the rocks and one of the Wildebeests crossing points. We return to Camp/Lodge in the evening for dinner and overnight on FB Basis.
OPTIONAL ACTIVITY: After breakfast visit a nearby Masai village to see their nomadic lifestyle. (At an extra fee payable directly to the Maasai villagers – The Maasai are famous for their bravery, as they have co-existed with the animals over the years.)
Depart the Masai Mara region to Nairobi where you will be dropped off at the airport, hotel or residence..
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