This brief and intense Big 5 safari will get you front-row seat action as the Great Wildebeest Migration makes it’s way across the border from Serengeti, where most of the great migration occurs. Our chosen dates and camps are to maximize on sightings, based on where the herds are at the time.

We recommend a minimum of 4 days to enjoy the spectacle of the greatest show on earth, and can tailor your safari to include more days, and to combine it with other sensational wildlife encounters in the region. Your Masai Mara safari will begin and end with a flight back to Nairobi, where you will be met and escorted to your to you Hotel or to Jomo Kenyatta airport for you outbound flight. You will be met at the national park airfield by your lodge guide.

More about the great wildebeest migration:

The Greatest Show on Earth is in fact an ongoing process and not an event. 1,5 to 2 million wildebeest, zebras and various antelope species form the largest land mammal migration on Earth as they continuously follow the rains and good grazing across the vast plains of Masai Mara in Kenya and the Serengeti in Tanzania

Along the way they cross many rivers, a sometimes chaotic and dramatic process if the river banks are steep and the water deep and fast flowing. Crocodiles trawl the murky waters and lions, leopards, cheetahs and hyenas line the banks as they too make the most of the situation.

The great migration follows a clockwise direction, with exact timing varying every year, depending on the rains. January and February usually sees most of the herds giving birth in the southern Serengeti, when the grass is green and highly nutritious. During March and April, the grasses have dried up and the herds start moving northwards through the Serengeti, ending up in the Masai Mara area in July. The herds move continually back and forth between the northern Serengeti in Tanzania and Masai Mara in Kenya until late September – with the regular river crossings across the often-treacherous Mara River being a focal point for tourists. After September, the herds start to move back south through the Serengeti, although stragglers will still be seen in the Masai Mara into October.