The Maasai Mara and the Serengeti by air, with private dinners and sundowners on both sides of the border.
Two of Africa's great reserves in one honeymoon. Fly into the Maasai Mara for three nights, cross the border by light aircraft to the Serengeti for four more, and enjoy private bush dinners, sundowners and, on request, a sunrise balloon flight above the herds.
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.
Start with coffee at sunrise and a private breakfast set up on the plains, then a slow game drive. In the evening, a candle-lit sundowner replaces the usual camp dinner.
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.
Take a light-aircraft flight to Serengeti (about 1 to 1.5 hours; routing via Nairobi or Arusha may apply), where your guide meets you. You arrive in the Serengeti for lunch and a first afternoon game drive across endless plains. The park is home to lion, leopard, cheetah and huge herds of zebra and wildebeest, and the scale of the landscape is hard to describe.
Spend the day exploring the park's plains and river valleys with a picnic lunch in the bush. Seronera is known for lion, leopard and cheetah, and the migration herds can be tracked depending on the season.
Your guide uses the latest sightings to track the wildebeest and zebra herds, whose position shifts through the year: southern plains in the early months, western corridor around mid-year and northern Serengeti from July to October.
Explore the park's granite kopjes, favourite lookouts for lion and leopard, and finish with a sundowner as the sky turns orange.
After breakfast, take a short flight from the Serengeti to Arusha (about 90 minutes) and connect to your onward flight or a transfer to Nairobi.
