From Nairobi Wilson you will catch the Safarilink flight down to the Amboseli Airstrip, landing mid-afternoon. Located at the foot of the iconic Mount Kilimanjaro, Satao Elerai is a lovely base from which to explore one of Kenya's most scenic, yet strangely under visited National Parks. The Satao Elerai Lodge is within a 5000 acre private reserve leased from the local Elerai Maasai community to protect the land from poaching and habitat infringement. The area is a critical wildlife corridor and therefore important to protect. Tonight you will enjoy a sundowner in the bush.

Spend today on a game walk on the conservancy, visiting the Elerai Maasai community to understand their traditional way of life and enjoying a spectacular night game drive. Alternatively, go on safari in Amboseli National Park, famed for its abundant populations of elephants and birds, in search of game such as lion, buffalo, gazelle, cheetah, wildebeest, zebra and giraffe.

You will be transferred to your Safarilink flight up to Nairobi to connect with your flight to Samburu National Reserve. Arriving before midday, you will be met and transferred to the luxury Elephant Bedroom Camp, situated on the banks of the Ewaso Ng'iro River. Following a delicious lunch, you will have a chance to relax, before heading out later on an evening game drive. The perfect chance to orientate yourself to your surroundings, it will also whet your appetite for the adventures to come.

Enjoy a traditional safari programme of morning and afternoon game drives through the scenic, game-rich wilderness of the Samburu National Reserve. Lion, leopard and elephant are amongst the animals often seen within the reserve as well as a variety of plains game including impala and zebra.

This morning you fly straight on to the famed landscapes of the Maasai Mara, surely one of Africa's most dramatic and spectacular wildlife areas. On arrival you will be driven on to Karen Blixen Camp, where a sumptuous lunch will be waiting, before a late afternoon game drive provides your first chance to encounter some of the big game for which this reserve is so well known.

The Maasai Mara is home to some of the largest populations of big cats on the continent, as well as rhinos, hyenas, crocodiles and more than 470 species of birds. Guests staying at Karen Blixen Camp enjoy included safaris in the Mara North Conservancy. During the Great Migration season (typically between July and October) you will also be able to enjoy a day out to the main part of the Maasai Mara National Reserve. in search of the herds and the chance to witness a river crossing.

Welcome to safari time – we’ll get up early to view the first golden light and the stirrings of the park’s wildlife. Today, we’ll enjoy maximum viewing with unlimited game drives across the vast savannahs. We’ll be tracking the big cats along with elephants, giraffes, buffalos, and the other 95 mammals found in this world-famous park. If you’re here during the Great Migration (July – October), you’ll encounter the most fantastic movement of animals on our planet. Thousands of zebra, gazelle, and wildebeest cross into the park over the Mara River on their timeless parade searching for taller grasses to consume. The river is also home to pods of hippos and waiting crocodiles, eyeing the vast herds crossing into their territory.

Following an early morning game drive and breakfast back at camp you will then depart for the airstrip for the flight back to Nairobi and any onward travels