Day 1

Aug 17

* Masai Mara – 260 km approx 5hrs
After early breakfast depart for Masai Mara game drive enroute ,drive across the floor of the Great Rift Valley to the Masai Mara Game Reserve with picnic lunch on the way, an afternoon game drive, dinner and overnight. The grassy plains of the Mara are home to many large herds of herbivores including wildebeest, gazelle, zebra, buffalo, topi, hartebeest, giraffe, eland, elephant, rhino and warthog. Lion, leopard and cheetah are often seen.

Arriving for lunch at Mara River Lodge. Later at 1600 hrs go for afternoon game drive. Dinner and overnight at the lodge.

* The Masai Mara is considered by many to be one of Kenya's finest game reserves.  The rolling grasslands offer ideal game viewing and photographic opportunities and the grassy plains are broken by rocky outcrops which are favourite midday resting places for lion, for which the Mara is famous.  Some of the other animals which can be seen in and around this 700 square mile conservation area include elephant, black rhino, buffalo, leopard, cheetah, wildebeest, zebra, and gazelle.  Hippo and crocodile abound in the muddy brown waters of the rivers which traverse this Reserve.  One of the Mara's main attractions each year is the astonishing spectacle of the annual migration of up to two million wildebeest, thousands of zebra and an escort of carnivores from the Serengeti plains, following the rains and succulent new grass.  A costly trek as many of the lame, laggard and sick will fall prey to the ravening pack of predators and many more will die in the swirling flood waters trying to cross the Mara River.  Once the rains have ended and the grass begins to wither the wildebeest turn south and head back to the Serengeti and beyond.