Across both, some 1.5 million wildebeest follow the rains in a slow, unending circle, and a single journey lets you follow them.
To travel both countries is to see the whole of the story rather than a chapter of it. In Kenya, the Mara offers the famed river crossings from July to October, private conservancies where vehicles are few, and Amboseli’s elephants beneath the snows of Kilimanjaro. In Tanzania, the Serengeti stretches across nearly 15,000 square kilometres, the Ngorongoro Crater holds a world entire within its walls, and the spice-scented shores of Zanzibar wait at the journey’s end.
Each safari we arrange is drawn up from a blank page. There are no fixed departures and no shared vehicles: only your dates, your pace and a private guide who knows the land as intimately as home. The border crossing, the light-aircraft connections and the change of camps are attended to quietly, so that the journey feels like one unbroken passage.
Most travellers find that ten to fourteen nights allow both countries to be enjoyed without haste. A typical route begins in the Mara, crosses into the northern Serengeti, descends into Ngorongoro, and closes either on the Indian Ocean or with a final evening in Nairobi or Arusha before the flight home.
