Samburu & Mara Explorer

About this journey

This 8-day luxury safari traverses Kenya's most spectacular wildlife corridor, from the sun-baked plains of Samburu in the north to the verdant savannas of the Masai Mara in the southwest. The journey reveals Kenya's extraordinary ecological diversity and introduces you to wildlife found nowhere else on Earth. Samburu National Reserve is home to the 'Samburu Special Five' — Grevy's zebra, reticulated giraffe, Beisa oryx, Somali ostrich, and the gerenuk, an otherworldly antelope that feeds standing on its hind legs. The Ewaso Nyiro River, the lifeline of this arid landscape, attracts dense congregations of elephants, crocodiles, and predators. From Samburu, you journey south to the Laikipia Plateau, a conservation success story where private ranches and community conservancies have created one of Kenya's highest concentrations of wildlife outside the traditional parks. Here, you track endangered black rhinos on foot, ride horses alongside giraffes, and enjoy the intimacy of a private conservancy with just a handful of fellow guests. The grand finale unfolds in the Masai Mara, Kenya's crown jewel, where lion prides rule the open grasslands and the Great Migration delivers its annual spectacle of life and death on an epic scale. Throughout the journey, you stay in handpicked luxury camps that embody the romance and adventure of a bygone safari era.