15 Days Wings Over The Migration Tour Package

Duration: 15 Days / 14 Nights
Priced From: $12,790 pp dbl. occ.  
Dates: Dec, Jan - Mar, Jun - Dec

The Great Migration plays out on the plains of Africa's Masai Mara and Serengeti. Follow the movement of herds, combining efficient airplane travel with accommodations in Africa's finest lodges and tented camps.

DAYS 1-2: USA or Canada/Nairobi, Kenya

Depart by overnight flight to Nairobi.
Nairobi Serena Hotel

DAY 3: Nairobi/Samburu Game Reserve

Today you fly to the Samburu Game Reserve, a semi-desert bush with a host of unique species of mammals and birds in Kenya's Northern Frontier District. Arrive in time for lunch and an opportunity to get settled in your luxurious tented camp. This afternoon, embark on your first safari game drive. Return to camp as the setting sun paints the vast African sky with a myriad of colors. This evening enjoy a special welcome dinner and safari briefing. This gathering provides a perfect opportunity to become better acquainted with both your safari escort and fellow travellers.
Larsen's Camp B L D

DAYS 4-5: Samburu Game Reserve

Spend two days exploring the semi-arid Samburu. On morning and afternoon game drives, search for the famous "Special Five" (reticulated giraffe, Grevy's zebra, beisa oryx, Somali ostrich and the graceful, longnecked gerenuk) found only north of the equator. You may even spot the elusive leopard, stalking the banks of the Uaso Nyiro River. The landscape here is rocky and hilly, with lush vegetation covered with tiny white wildflowers. Explore this beautiful area from the comfort of your private safari vehicle. Your knowledgeable guide identifies the Samburu wildlife and provides you with in-depth information on the animals' habits and characteristics.
Larsen's Camp B L D

DAY 6: Samburu/Masai Mara Game Reserve

After breakfast, board a flight to the Masai Mara, the Kenyan portion of the great Serengeti ecosystem, catching first sight of the herds as you circle to land. Here, your luxury camp is idyllically nestled in the heart of Kenya's big game country with a style reminiscent of the romantic safari era at the turn of the 19th century. In the Mara you find the greatest concentration of wildlife in Kenya, with the Mara's lion population (the largest in the country) standing at uapex. The delicate ecosystem of the Mara is the focus of world attention in a major conservation effort to preserve one of Africa's last true strongholds of game.

Olonana is at the forefront of eco-tourism in Kenya. Just fourteen spacious tents with their own private riverside verandahs make it the perfect size for an intimate, personal experience. Your stay here can be as active or leisurely as you please, and you may choose from many activities including game drives, bush walks and Maasai village visits, along with visits to tree planting and biogas community projects or the wetlands projects in the camp. **
Olonana B L D

DAYS 7-8: Masai Mara Game Reserve

You spend two exciting days driving across the limitless plains in search of abundant game in one of Kenya's most spectacular areas. Here, the flat landscape does not allow prey an opportunity to hide from predators as in other game reserves. The colors here are shades of a never-ending green grassland and blue sky with a wide open land dotted by the occasional desert date tree. On game drives in the heart of this classic grassland savannah, view migrating herbivores and their predators. Your professional safari driver makes it his mission to get you as close as possible to the action. Constant communication with fellow drivers ensures the best sightings. Watch a lioness return to her cubs at day's end.

Take in the fiery colors of an African sunset. Feel a sense of calm as the Mara washes away all thoughts of the outside world. Beyond your safari drives, other exciting activities include a visit to a Maasai village where you meet the Maasai tribe, a colorful pastoral people that have made the Masai Mara their home for centuries. Or see a bird's-eye view of the plains on a hot air balloon excursion. You may also take a short flight to Lake Victoria, where picturesque fishing villages have remained unchanged for centuries. On your final evening here, dine on the banks of the Mara River.
Olonana B L D

DAY 9: Masai Mara/Nairobi/Arusha, Tanzania/

Today, you bid farewell to your camp staff and fly to Nairobi where you connect and continue on to Arusha, and then on to Lake Manyara airstrip. Here you drive to one of the natural wonders of the world, the ancient volcanic caldera known as the Ngorongoro Crater. Travel up the scenic flanks of the Ngorongoro highlands and enjoy magnificent views before reaching your Ngorongoro Crater Mobile Tented Camp, your home for the next two nights. Perched on the rim of the Crater the views across this 2,000 foot deep natural amphitheater are spectacular. Your camp staff is waiting to welcome you. After settling in, relax by a roaring campfire while listening to the night sounds of the African bush all around you.
Exclusive Mobile Tented Camp B L D

DAY 10: Ngorongoro Crater

Explore the crater's prolific wildlife, pausing for a private gourmet barbecue hosted within a yellow acacia grove. The crater supports as many as 25,000 large mammals, including zebra, wildebeest (which account for almost half the animals), gazelle, buffalo, eland, hartebeest and warthog, as well as a dense population of large predators such as lion and hyena. This evening you are in for a special treat as you experience an amazing dance performance by a local Maasai tribe.
Exclusive Mobile Tented Camp B L D

DAY 11: Ngorongoro Crater/Serengeti National Park

Today, fly to Serengeti National Park, home to many species including zebra, gazelle, lion, leopard, hyena, giraffe, elephant and buffalo. During the annual migration, vast numbers of wildebeest move across the plains. Twice a year, triggered by the rains, 1.3 million wildebeest, 200,000 zebra and 300,000 Thomson's gazelle migrate to new grazing lands on a route that roughly mirrors the boundaries of Serengeti National Park, extending to Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve. You may encounter these massive herds, sometimes called the "eighth wonder of the world," on their dramatic annual journey.
Kusini Camp B L D

DAYS 12-13: Serengeti National Park

Spend two days of morning and afternoon game viewing in this expansive region, a protected animal refuge since 1929. The Serengeti is one of the most spectacular game parks in East Africa. This complex ecosystem is home to some 35 species of plains game and 500 bird species, and is a land of stunning variation in both wildlife and topography. Its short- and long-grass plains in the south give way to acacia savannah in the central area, leading to the hilly, more densely wooded areas of the north, with an extensive corridor of woodland in the west. After an exciting day on safari, return to your luxurious camp and enjoy sundowner cocktails on a kopje (rocky outcropping) overlooking the Serengeti plains, and join fellow travellers for a farewell dinner.
Kusini Camp B L D

DAY 14: Serengeti/Arusha/USA or Canada

Fly to Arusha, where a dayroom is supplied for your convenience before you board your international flight.
Arusha Coffee Lodge (dayroom) B L

DAY 15: USA or Canada

Connect with your homebound flight.

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