24 Sep 2024 - 30 Sep 2024 (7 days)
USD3,550 - Spaces Available
Tour Leader: Rockjumper Tour Leader TBC
Pricing notes : *prices are estimated and dates may change*
Tour price (Per person): USD3,550 * GBP2,687 * EUR3,190 * AUD5,258
Single Supplement: USD650 * GBP492 * EUR584 * AUD963
Flight costs: USD570 * GBP431 * EUR512 * AUD844
24 Sep 2025 - 30 Sep 2025 (7 days)
USD3,950 - Spaces Available
Tour Leader: Rockjumper Tour Leader TBC
Pricing notes : *prices are estimated and dates may change*
Tour price (Per person): USD3,950 * GBP2,990 * EUR3,549 * AUD5,850
Single Supplement: USD750 * GBP568 * EUR674 * AUD1,111
Flight costs: USD650 * GBP492 * EUR584 * AUD963
Embark on a thrilling 7-day safari adventure in Kenya's Maasai Mara, focusing on the region's iconic big cats. Begin your journey in Nairobi before flying to the renowned Maasai Mara National Reserve. Stay in a beautiful camp along the Mara River, surrounded by diverse wildlife. Enjoy daily game drives, a hot-air balloon safari, and the opportunity to witness the Great Wildebeest Migration, lion prides, elusive leopards, and sprinting cheetahs. This tour offers unparalleled wildlife photography opportunities and the chance to experience the majestic African landscape in style and comfort.
Exceptional birdwatching opportunities as well with numerous eagles and other raptors such as Martial, Tawny, Bateleur, Gabar, and Dark Chanting Goshawk, and others such as Black-bellied and Kori Bustard, and numerous species of hornbills, flycatchers, shrikes, and waterbirds.
Large lion prides, Leopard, Cheetah, incredible Wildebeest migration as they cross the Mara River, Spotted Hyena, Black-backed Jackal, Nile Crocodile, Hippo, African Elephant, African Buffalo, Olive Baboon, Banded and Egyptian Mongooses, Plain’s Zebra, Warthog, Topi, Coke’s Hartebeest, Thomson’s & Grant’s Gazelle’s, Impala, Eland (the world’s largest antelope) and Giraffe.
Explore the vast grasslands, riverine forests, and acacia woodlands of the Maasai Mara National Reserve.
Expect warm days and cool nights with temperatures ranging from 12-28°C (54-82°F), typical of Kenya’s dry season in September.
6 and 1 Local Wildlife Guide
The tour maintains a moderate pace with daily game drives, ensuring ample time for wildlife observation and relaxation.
Stay in luxurious riverbank camps offering comfort and proximity to wildlife.
Hot Air Balloon Safari.
Capture stunning images of diverse wildlife, dramatic landscapes, and big cat interactions.
Thank you for a wonderful experience! The tour exceeded my expectations. Andre Bernon is an extremely talented and knowledgeable guide. His eyes and ears are incredible and he is very thoughtful with his guests.
Great trip – close encounters with a lot of target birds and mammals, exciting habitats, comfortable accommodations and an outstanding guide. Glen must be one of the foremost authorities on African birds and I learned a great deal from him regarding ecology, behaviour, systematics and conservation.
This was one of the best five of the 53 guided birding tours I have taken! Paul Josop is not only a truly excellent local guide who knows African birds and their calls phenomenally well, but is also extremely pleasant to deal with, polite, supportive of all levels of participant birding skills and very thoughtful. Paul also has an infectious sense of humor: We all laughed a lot on this tour! He loves to teach participants the finer points of the biology of the animals and plants encountered on a tour; he also managed group dynamics very well. It is clear that Paul enjoys guiding and he is very focused on getting all of the tour participants onto every bird species we encountered: He is living proof of my dictum that ""A good local guide is a thing of joy"". Our two local guide/drivers, Roger in Tanzania and Edson in Kenya, were also excellent: They dealt very well with severely pot-holed African roads and erratic African drivers and traffic; they also pointed out very many birds and big game as we bounced through the national parks, reserves and paved roads, all filled with aggressive opposing traffic! They have my highest recommendation. However, I do urge the local tour operator, Tanzania Birding and Beyond, to have their Land Cruiser passenger seats rebuilt - they were singularly uncomfortable on our long drives. This Rockjumper tour has my highest recommendation for all levels of participants' birding skills.
David Hoddinott and indeed the drivers and Alison were all amazing - making this a life-changing experience. Everything went far better than expected throughout the tour in my opinion. I do not see how it could have been improved. Well done to all!
This was a first-rate trip. Itinerary, accommodation, people and , of course, Glen's great leading and bird-finding were all excellent.
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