Introduction How many days migration safari should you book? It’s one of the first questions almost every first-time safari traveler asks, and one of the hardest to answer with a single number. The honest answer is that it depends on what you want from the trip — a taste of the Mara, or a full […]
Samburu’s Special Five: Kenya’s Rarest Wildlife You Won’t See in the Mara
Most first-time Kenya travelers head straight for the Maasai Mara — and rightly so. But ask anyone who has also made it north to Samburu, and they’ll tell you something surprising: it’s an entirely different Kenya. Red earth instead of green plains. Doum palms instead of acacia-dotted grassland. A handful of vehicles at a sighting […]
Mara River Crossings 2026: Best Time & Places to See Them
Mara river crossings 2026 are shaping up to be one of the greatest wildlife spectacles on the planet. There is nothing on Earth quite like it. Over 1.5 million wildebeest, alongside roughly 200,000–400,000 zebra and hundreds of thousands of gazelle, moving in one continuous, clockwise loop between Tanzania’s Serengeti and Kenya’s Maasai Mara — a […]


