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You are met at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport by your Dawn Safaris representative and transferred to your hotel. Your guide gives a short briefing on the days ahead and answers any last-minute questions.
Take a scheduled light-aircraft flight from Wilson Airport to the Laikipia airstrip (about 45 to 60 minutes), where your guide meets you. You arrive at your conservancy lodge in time for lunch. Laikipia's private conservancies allow activities that national parks do not, and your first afternoon is a game drive on the plateau with a sundowner at a viewpoint.
Visit the Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary, then track black and white rhino with a ranger. Ol Pejeta is also home to the last two northern white rhinos, which can be seen on a guided visit.
Take a light-aircraft flight to Maasai Mara (about 1 to 1.5 hours; routing via Nairobi or Arusha may apply), 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.
