Fly from Nairobi to the Maasai Mara and spend three nights on game drives at a tented camp.
Skip the long road transfer and be on safari within an hour of leaving Nairobi. You fly from Wilson Airport to the Mara, where three nights at a tented camp are spent on morning and afternoon game drives, with time between for rest, a bush lunch and sundowners. Ideal when time is short but you want the full Mara experience.
Take a scheduled light-aircraft flight from Wilson Airport to the Maasai Mara airstrip (about 45 to 60 minutes), where your guide meets you. You arrive at your camp in time for lunch, then head out on your first game drive across the open plains of the Maasai Mara, home to lion, cheetah, elephant, buffalo and vast herds of zebra and wildebeest. Dinner and a night of lion calls follow.
Leave at first light with a packed breakfast to find big cats on the open plains. Enjoy a bush picnic lunch near the hippo pools, then spend the afternoon tracking lion, cheetah, elephant and buffalo before returning at dusk.
Drive toward the Mara River, where between July and October wildebeest herds gather to cross. Outside the migration season the banks are excellent for hippo, crocodile and elephant, and the surrounding plains for lion and cheetah.
After an early game drive and breakfast, you fly back to Wilson Airport in Nairobi (about 45 to 60 minutes). You are met and transferred to the airport for your onward flight, or to your hotel.
