Wildebeest Migration in the Masai Mara
4 Nights in the heart of the Masai Mara
Transfer from Nairobi to Masai Mara
Full board at Mara Intrepids Luxury Tented Camp
3 Game drives per day
Transfer from Masai Mara to Mombasa
U$1,775 per person sharing
After the rains when the first flush of grass turns the Masai Mara’s golden savannah green, the most mesmerising wildlife spectacle anywhere takes place here: The Great Wildebeest Migration. During the months of July through to October one and a half million wildebeest, accompanied by vast numbers of zebra and gazelles make the long and dangerous trek from drier lands in Tanzania, northwards to this corner of Kenya.
Overlooking the Talek River, at the very confluence of the Mara’s four game viewing areas, Mara Intrepids Camp enjoys one of the most spectacular locations in the world’s best-known wilderness.
Mara Intrepids is a short drive from the Mara River, where more than a million wildebeest and zebra make their perilous migration crossing every July and August. For the remainder of the year, the camp offers some of the world’s finest game viewing, with large local populations of plains game, elephants, rhinos, buffaloes, and all the Big Cats.
In 2004, some 75% of the footage for the BBC’s famous Big Cat Diary was shot in the vicinity of the camp.
Mara Intrepids is 298 kilometres and a six-hour drive from Nairobi, while our all-weather airstrip, Ol Kiombo, enables guests to be at the camp within 45 minutes of leaving the capital. The airstrip is serviced twice daily by both Safarilink and Air Kenya from Wilson Airport in Nairobi.
Our Accommodation in Masai Mara
Mara Intrepids Tented Camp
Masai Mara Kenya
Mara Intrepids has 30 luxury tents widely spread across a large river side site to ensure guests the optimum of privacy and peace. The veranda provides the perfect place for sitting in a shady raised platform viewing the Talek river,
Each tent is furnished in the classic style of the grand African safaris, with large four-poster beds and handsome reproduction furniture, offset by modern en suite bathrooms with hot showers, flush toilets and all modern amenities.
Our package provides for Luxurious modern tents with secluded verandas; Full Board which includes three lip-smacking meals; Small river front dining areas with private catering; Free form swimming pool with sunbathing terrace; Elevated game-viewing platform with bar service; 3 Game drives per day in custom-built four-wheel-drive safari Land Rovers; Reliable 240-volt generator electricity supply & Free WiFi in public areas.
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The 4×4 safari jeeps which are used for daily game safaris are specially modified to allow for more legroom and roof racks open for the best game viewing and photography.
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3 Game Drives A Day
Planned Itinerary
With transfer options to drive or fly in small aircraft
Three guided game reserve safaris everyday; early morning from 6 am to 9 am; the mid morning after breakfast and finally the late afternoon from 3.30 pm returning to camp at sunset. Or you can indulge in a full day guided game safari to the Mara River with a packed picnic breakfast and lunch. All drives are with your personal guide.
Day 1: June 27 - Fly Nairobi to Masai Mara Reserve
After breakfast, @ 0800h, you’ll be picked from your Hotel and transferred to Wilson Airport. The Masai Mara flight to takes off at 10.00 am. Upon landing, at 11.00am, met by your Mara Intrepids tour guide, who will drive you to the camp, your home for the next 4 nights.
This morning, you will be picked up from your hotel at 07.00am, for a drive along the floor of the Great Rift Valley to reach and enter the Masai Mara Game Reserve, the finest wildlife sanctuary in Africa, arriving at your Mara Intrepids, your home for the next 4 nights, in time for lunch.
En route, you will enjoy a mini game drive as a way of introduction to Kenya's most popular wildlife safari destination.
After formalities, refresh and enjoy lunch. Relax until tea time and head out for your first game drive in this world famous game reserve, known for the Big Five. At sunset, return to camp/lodge for dinner and overnight.
The Mara is a soul-stirring sense of space that, for some, endures in the memory: the oceans of grassland, cropped and yellow in the dry season, tall and green after the rains, eluded in the Masai name meaning spotted land. For most, however it’s the staggering volume of game, in particular the annual migration of up to two million wildebeest, zebra, gazelle and other grazers.
Day 2, 3 & 4: June 28/29 & 30 - Three full days in Masai Mara Reserve
Three full days to explore the Masai Mara plains in daily early morning, mid morning and late afternoon game drives. The plains are filled with buffaloes, elephants, antelopes, zebras, giraffes, and several other plains animal species.
Subject to the weather in earlier months you should be able to witness the start of the annual Wildebeest Migration and the river crossing spectacle.
You also stand a very good chance of spotting the many predators prevalent in the Mara, including cheetahs, leopards, plenty of lions, hyenas, and foxes among many others.
Option to go on a full day game drive with a picnic lunch can be planned.
There’s also an opportunity to visit a local Masai village or ‘boma’– an intriguing cultural experience to witness how this nomadic tribe live in harmony with nature and the wilderness.
Day 5: June 30: Masai Mara Reserve – ChaLe Island South Coast
After breakfast and morning game activities, early lunch and check out with game en-route back to the airstrip for a scheduled flight from Masai Mara to Ukunda departing at 1400h. On arrival @ Ukunda airstrip at 1625h, met by a hotel representative who will drive you The Sands at Chale Island resort your home for the next 7- 10 days. The rest of the days at leisure.
After breakfast, check out and head to back to Nairobi. On arrival in Nairobi, you will be dropped off at the International Airport for your Mombasa/Ukunda flight. On arrival @ Mombasa/Ukunda airstrip, you will be met by a hotel representative who will drive you The Sands at Chale Island resort your home for the next 7- 10 days.
Estimated Flight Timings:
Nairobi Wilson / Masai Mara - Dep 1000 / Arr 1100h
Masai Mara / Ukunda airstrip - Dep 1400h / Arr 1630h
Added Adventures
Take a walk on the wild side and leave the camp on foot with an escorted walking safaris. Your knowledgeable guide with introduce you flora and fauna close up and personal. You will be amazed how much life you simply don't see unless you walk stealthily through the plains and forests.
Instead of meeting at the bar for a drink, why not meet somewhere in the Mara for a sundowner where you can sip a cocktail by the camp fire and watch the sun melt in the horizon. Evenings in the Mara come alive with the night animals like the bat-eared fox, the owls and the big cats like the lion and the leopard stirring to hunt under the cover of darkness. You simply cannot miss to drink a toast to Africa’s incredible diversity of wildlife
If dining at the camp proves a tad too tame, you can head out to wilder settings and enjoy sumptuous bush breakfasts and dinners in the bush including sundowners within sight of a lion or a herd of elephants or the hippos snorting in the river below. It’s the ultimate African appetizer.
Masai Mara Package Includes:
4 Nights at Mara Intrepids
Full board accommodation
Transfer from Nairobi - Masai Mara - Mombasa
Game drives as stated
Masai Mara Reserve Conservation fees
Extras payable directly:
International flights
En-route lunch on the last day
Drinks unless where specified
Optional excursions
Expenses of a personal nature
Kenya entry visa fees
Travel Insurance ,Tips & Gratuities
