Kenya in Style - Big Cats of the Mara 2025

24 Sep 2025 - 30 Sep 2025 (7 days)

USD3,950 - Spaces Available

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Pricing notes : *prices are estimated and dates may change*

Tour price (Per person): USD3,950 * GBP3,153 * EUR3,794 * AUD6,083

Single Supplement: USD750 * GBP599 * EUR720 * AUD1,155

Flight costs: USD650 * GBP519 * EUR624 * AUD1,001

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.

Top Birds

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.

Top Mammals

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.

Habitats Covered

Explore the vast grasslands, riverine forests, and acacia woodlands of the Maasai Mara National Reserve.

Expected Climate

Expect warm days and cool nights with temperatures ranging from 12-28°C (54-82°F), typical of Kenya’s dry season in September.

Max Group Size

6 and 1 Local Wildlife Guide

Tour Pace & Walking

The tour maintains a moderate pace with daily game drives, ensuring ample time for wildlife observation and relaxation.

Accommodation

Stay in luxurious riverbank camps offering comfort and proximity to wildlife.

Other Attractions

Hot Air Balloon Safari.

Photographic Opportunities

Capture stunning images of diverse wildlife, dramatic landscapes, and big cat interactions.

What our clients say about us

Gregory de Klerk
PC, Kenya 2018

Greg de Klerk was very friendly and competent. He worked diligently to ensure we all saw the birds. We were always given sufficient time to look closely and for some to take photos. A most enjoyable tour.

Glen Valentine
ID, Kenya 2021

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.

Quinton Paul Josop
CS, Kenya & Tanzania 2024

Paul Josop is a top notch and amazing tour leader - at all times he was knowledgeable, patient, attentive and engaging. We loved the trip and feel that much of its success was because of Paul's excellent guiding skills. We feel very fortunate to have experienced all that we did.

David Hoddinott
VS & BS, Kenya 2021

We have birded with David Hoddinott previously. As usual, David was exceptionally talented at finding birds and other wildlife, plus making certain that all participants were able to see them. David maximized our exposure to viewing birds and wildlife which made the tour a pleasurable experience.

Quinton Paul Josop
CH - Kenya & Tanzania 2024

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.

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