The Grand Kenya Explorer

Arrival in the Masai Mara & Welcome Game Drive

Touch down at a Mara airstrip and transfer to camp along tracks already thick with plains game. After settling into your tent and a light lunch, head out for an afternoon orientation drive as the light turns gold, tracking your first impala, topi, and, with luck, a resting lion pride before returning to camp for dinner under the stars.

Full-Day Predator Tracking in the Mara Triangle

A full day dedicated to the Mara's resident big cats, departing at first light with a packed bush breakfast. Your guide works radio networks with fellow trackers to follow fresh lion and leopard sign across the Triangle's riverine forest and open plains, returning to camp only as the heat of the day settles in.

Mara River & Migration Watch

Position along the Mara River at one of its known crossing points, where thousands of wildebeest and zebra gather before the plunge (peak season July to October; outside this window the drive focuses on resident river wildlife including hippo pods and Nile crocodile).

Elephant Herds of Amboseli

A full morning tracking Amboseli's famous large-tusker elephant herds as they move between swamp and acacia woodland, with Kilimanjaro rising behind them in one of Africa's most photographed backdrops.

Observation Hill & Swamp Circuit

Climb Observation Hill for a panoramic view over the entire ecosystem, then spend the afternoon on the swamp-edge circuit, home to hippo, waterbuck, and dense concentrations of waterbirds.

Maasai Cultural Encounter

After a morning game drive, visit a Maasai community living on the edge of the Amboseli ecosystem to learn how they coexist with the elephant herds that pass through their grazing land each season.

Arrival & Ewaso Ng'iro Sundowner

Transfer into the reserve along the Ewaso Ng'iro river, settling into camp before an evening riverside sundowner with a chance of spotting elephant coming down to drink as the light fades.

Tracking the Samburu Special Five

A full day dedicated to the reserve's northern endemics: Grevy's zebra, reticulated giraffe, gerenuk, beisa oryx, and Somali ostrich, species found almost nowhere else in Kenya.

Samburu Community Visit

After a morning game drive, visit a local Samburu village to learn about the community's traditions, beadwork, and enduring relationship with the surrounding wilderness.