6 Day Fly-in Migration Safari: Masai Mara Kenya and Northern Serengeti Tanzania

The overland journey between the Masai Mara and the Serengeti takes the better part of two days when driven. Those two days are gone from your wildlife viewing time, replaced by hours of road travel and border waiting. The fly-in approach solves this entirely: a short charter flight carries you between camps in under an hour, and every hour on the ground is spent with wildlife rather than in transit.

This six day programme places you at two of the most important vantage points for the Great Wildebeest Migration, the largest overland animal movement on earth. Between July and October approximately one and a half million wildebeest, accompanied by hundreds of thousands of zebra and gazelle, complete a clockwise circuit around the Serengeti ecosystem. The northern section of this circuit, where the herds attempt the notorious Mara River crossings, is where the drama reaches its peak.

In the Masai Mara your first three days are spent in the northern tip of the reserve where the migration river crossings take place. The Mara River is full of large Nile crocodiles that wait patiently for the wildebeest to commit to the crossing, and the scenes of panic, courage and predation that unfold at these moments are unlike anything else in the natural world. Your camp is positioned to minimise drive time to the crossing points.

From the Mara a chartered aircraft carries you south across the Kenyan border into Tanzania's Northern Serengeti, where the migration herds can often be found on the Tanzanian side of the same river system. Two days here allow you to observe the herds from the Tanzanian perspective, often with fewer vehicles than on the Kenyan side. Open-sided vehicles used in this section provide a completely unobstructed view and an immersive connection to the surrounding landscape.