12-Nights The Great Herds of Kenya & Tanzania

Classic Safari Supersights

The splendours we encounter on this brilliantly focussed safari–the Maasai Mara, the Serengeti, and the Ngorongoro Crater–are matchless in their African and planetary magnificence, quintessentially African in their wealth of wildlife and their stunning landscapes, planetary because their likes are found precisely nowhere else on Earth.

We begin in Hemingways, a serene hotel in Nairobi’s verdant suburbs before heading to Sir Richard Branson’s innovative Mahali Mzuri, an ideal outpost for our forays into the river forests and golden plains of the Maasai Mara. Then, based from the soothingly luxe Four Seasons, we delve into the sea of life that is the Serengeti. Our last stop before heading back to Nairobi is the Ngorongoro Crater, a 100-square mile caldera populated by the Big Five and just about every glorious African animal from antelopes to zebras. And while ensconced in the Manor at Ngorongoro, we’ll visit Lake Manyara, whose lyrical flight of flamingos you may remember from Out of Africa.

Highlights

• The Serengeti: “The light is dazzling, the air delectable; the magic of the American prairie here blends with the other magic of the animals as they existed before man,” wrote the great British litterateur Cyril Connolly.
• The Maasai Mara, the northern, more exuberantly foliated reaches of the vast Maasai Mara-Serengeti ecosystem, the world’s greatest assemblage of free-roaming animals, a place where, Isak Dinesen wrote, “you felt the night-air soft and deep and pregnant with benediction.”  
• Once a towering volcano, a rival of lordly Kilimanjaro, the Ngorongoro Crater is a natural masterpiece that brings to mind Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World. 
• And last and of course, the constant, touchdown to takeoff presence of a Micato Safari Director, backed up by our 24-hour Concierge Service and our in-country and international staff.