Private Luxury Kenya Safari Itinerary: From the Maasai Mara Great Migration to Northern Kenya Conservancies
10-19 September
Safari journey designed for the group for up to 12 people
10–13 September: Maasai Mara | Great Migration & Luxury Mobile Camp
13–16 September: Northern Kenya | Samburu Culture & Kalepo Camp
16–19 September: Borana Conservancy | Lengishu Private House
The Safari We’d Plan for Our Own Friends
Perhaps you’ve been talking about it for years.
The safari with old friends.
A group of couples who keep saying they should take a proper trip together. The big family journey now that the children are grown up.
The hardest part is often getting the dates in the diary.
But once you do, there is another question: how do you create a trip that everyone will love?
For a group of up to 12 people, choosing beautiful places is the easy part.
One person might care about photography, another about walking. Someone wants to understand more about conservation and the people who live here, while someone else wants a beautiful place to read and meet everyone for lunch.
The best group trips, in our experience, are not the ones where everyone is expected to want exactly the same thing.
That is exactly who we had in mind when we put this safari together.
Begin with the Great Migration at a Private Mobile Camping in the Masai Mara
We begin with three nights at our private camp on the Sand River in the Maasai Mara during migration season.
We have spent a lot of time in the Mara, and the position of this camp is, in our opinion, second to none.
Last year, the migration came right past camp. One evening, everyone stood watching thousands of wildebeest move across the plains with G&Ts in hand.
Will exactly the same thing happen this September? We can’t promise that. The herds move according to rain, grass and water, and that unpredictability is part of the excitement.
What we can say is that this is an extraordinary place from which to experience the migration. Finlay guides each day and Hannah hosts the camp, so the days can follow what is actually happening rather than a fixed schedule.
Then we change the landscape completely.
Discover Samburu Culture in Northern Kenya
Go somewhere most people wouldn’t know to choose
Kalepo is a tiny camp in an enormous landscape.
This is northern Kenya, and the experience here feels completely different from the Mara. The days are less about chasing sightings and more about getting out into the landscape.
You might walk, explore with camels, visit the Singing Wells or spend time with Samburu families, blacksmiths and craftspeople.
For us, this is an important part of travelling through Kenya. Wildlife is only one part of the story, and some of the experiences people talk about longest afterwards happen when they get out of the vehicle.
Kalepo is wild, remote and deeply connected to the landscape and people around it.
It is the kind of place many travellers would never find on their own, and exactly the kind of place we love taking people.
End Your Kenya Safari at Borana Conservancy
Finish somewhere everyone can choose their own day
We finish at Lengishu, a private house on Borana Conservancy and somewhere with a personal connection for us. Finlay’s mum, Emma, designed the interiors, so it is a house we have known closely from the beginning.
Personal connection aside, we think it is a brilliant place to finish a safari with a group.
By this point, everyone has been travelling together for six days, and this is often when people start wanting slightly different things. At Lengishu, that is easy.
The early risers can go rhino tracking. Others can ride, walk or head out on a game drive. Someone else can stay at the house, swim, read or simply enjoy a slow morning.
Everyone can spend the day doing what they actually enjoy and come back together for lunch, drinks or dinner.
Borana is somewhere we know deeply and care about. It is a working conservation landscape and an important home for black and white rhino, with opportunities to understand more about the conservation work taking place here.
But not every hour needs to be filled.
Sometimes the best way to finish a safari is simply to have time together in a beautiful house, with nowhere else you need to be.
The Final Window to Witness the Great Migration this Season: Private Expedition From Masai Mara to Northern Kenya
10-19 September
Designed for the group for up to 12 people
Three very different sides of Kenya.
Finlay guides the expedition from beginning to end, getting to know the group as the journey unfolds.
The result is three completely different experiences: the scale and drama of the Great Migration, the wildness and cultural richness of northern Kenya, and finally the freedom of a private house on Borana Conservancy.
We fly privately between the three regions, allowing us to move directly between very different parts of Kenya without shaping the expedition around airline schedules
10–13 September: Maasai Mara | Great Migration & Luxury Mobile Camp
13–16 September: Northern Kenya | Samburu Culture & Kalepo Camp
16–19 September: Borana Conservancy | Lengishu Private House
This September we’ll host one private expedition for a group of up to 12 guests on this journey.
September offers the final opportunity this year to experience the Great Migration in the Maasai Mara before the herds gradually begin their journey south again.
We take on a limited number of private safaris each year, allowing us to give every journey our full attention. So, only one spot is open for this September.
Trips like this rarely happen because everyone’s diary suddenly clears. Usually, one person decides to start the conversation.
Perhaps that person is you.
Or get in touch for the full itinerary: safaris@everwildafrica.com