Skip to what it serves Mara Sky/Airstrips/Ol Seki Ol Seki Airstrip Ol Seki is the conservancy strip for the Mara Naboisho area, north-east of the national reserve. It is the arrival point that lets you land inside capped-vehicle country rather than driving into it, which is the whole reason a Naboisho itinerary is worth building…
Skip to what it serves Mara Sky/Airstrips/Ol Kiombo Ol Kiombo Airstrip Ol Kiombo is the central-reserve strip, serving the Talek side and the middle of the Masai Mara National Reserve. It is one of the busier scheduled arrivals in the ecosystem, which is precisely why it is often the strip that still has a service…
Skip to what it serves Mara Sky/Airstrips/Musiara Musiara Airstrip Musiara is the northern-reserve strip, serving the Musiara Marsh area and the camps along that part of the Mara River. It is the arrival point for the northern sector of the national reserve, including Governors’ Camp, and it puts you in marsh and river country from…
Skip to the border reality Mara Sky/Kenya flying safaris/Kenya & Tanzania Kenya and Tanzania Fly-In Safaris The Mara and the Serengeti are one ecosystem divided by an international border, and the border is the part every brochure skips. Wildlife crosses it freely; you do not. A cross-border fly-in safari is entirely workable, but it involves…
Masai Mara fly-in safari guide Affordable Masai Mara Fly-In Safaris An affordable Masai Mara fly-in safari combines scheduled flights, appropriately priced tented accommodation, sensible room sharing, a correctly matched airstrip and clearly itemised safari services. It saves the long Nairobi–Mara road transfer without automatically adding the cost of a luxury lodge or private charter. As…
Skip to what luxury actually means Mara Sky/Masai Mara Fly-In Safaris/Luxury Luxury Masai Mara Fly-In Safaris A flight does not make a safari luxurious. What does is a defined set of things you can check before booking: privacy at sightings, a vehicle you are not sharing, a camp positioned in good game country, guiding you…
Skip to the month-by-month table Mara Sky/Masai Mara Fly-In Safaris/Best time to fly Best Time for a Masai Mara Fly-In Safari July to October typically offers the driest conditions and the highest chance of migration herds, at the year’s highest rates and busiest sightings. January to March gives strong resident game viewing with more space,…
Skip to migration timing Mara Sky/Masai Mara Fly-In Safaris/Great Migration Great Migration Fly-In Safaris In most years the migration herds are in the Masai Mara between about July and October, and river crossings become possible within that window. No operator can promise a crossing on a given date, because the movement is driven by rainfall…
Skip to whether Siana suits your camp Mara Sky/Airstrips/Siana Siana Airstrip Siana Airstrip is a graded airstrip in the Siana conservancy country east of Sekenani Gate, outside the Masai Mara National Reserve boundary. It serves conservancy camps on the eastern approaches, and whether it serves yours depends on that camp’s membership and access arrangements rather…
Skip to access and airstrips Mara Sky/Masai Mara Fly-In Safaris/Siana Siana Fly-In Safaris Siana is community-owned conservancy country immediately east of Sekenani Gate, outside the Masai Mara National Reserve. Flying in gives you capped vehicle numbers, activities the reserve does not permit, and a nightly fee that pays Maasai landowners directly — in exchange for…