Wings Into The Masai Mara

Today you are met and transferred from your Nairobi hotel or from Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport to Wilson Airport (Nairobi's domestic airport). At Wilson Airport you board your plane for the short one-hour flight to the Masai Mara airstrip, where you are met by our Masai Mara guide for the transfer to our camp. There are two flights daily from Wilson Airport (10am and 3pm). Depending on availaility we try to book you on the earlier flight, if you are staying overnight in Nairobi or if your international flight arrival into Nairobi allows you sufficient time to clear customs and be transferred to Wilson Airport. If you catch the earlier flight, you take lunch on arrival at the Mara Camp before partaking in an afternoon/evening game drive. If you catch the later flight, then you arrive at the Mara Camp in time for dinner. Our camp in the Masai Mara is a classic luxury bush camp and is completely unfenced. The small dining area, open fireplace and tented accommodation ensures an intimate ambience. All tents are spacious, fully insect-proof and set in typical east African style, furnished with beds, linen, bedside tables and luggage storage racks. Bathrooms are ensuite and are equipped with a dresser, shower and ecologically friendly 'dry' toilet. There are canvas director's chairs in front of each tent and around the campfire. Most meals are taken al-fresco in a clearing overlooking the plains or in the spacious dining tent.

The daily routine varies, as on some days picnics are taken out on extended half-day or full-day game drives. However a normal routine is as follows. We are woken at dawn for a light breakfast of tea or coffee and a biscuit. An early morning game drive involves setting off at sunrise and returning to the camp three to four hours later. Breakfast is a leisurely affair, taken outside in the morning sunlight. Lunch is also usually served al-fresco. During the heat of the day we are invited to relax and absorb the silence of the bush, punctuated only by intermittent bird calls. Alternatively we can also utilise the reference library, which has an excellent selection of books. An afternoon game drive departs around 4pm and returns after sunset. We then freshen up before joining other guests around the campfire for a pre-dinner drink. Dinner is served by candlelight in the dining tent. There is an opportunity to take a nightcap by the fire before retiring. Game-viewing are conducted on 4WD safari vehicles with opening roof hatches. There are also escorted bush walks available from the camp. All walks are escorted by a camp guide.

This morning we partake in the normal daily routine until our departure. If you arrived on the morning flight into the Masai Mara, you will be booked on the morning flight back that arrives back in Nairobi between 12 noon and 1pm. If you arrived on the afternoon flight into the Masai Mara you will be booked on the afternoon flight, arriving back into Wilson Airport between 5pm and 6pm. Upon arrival into Wilson Airport you are met and transferred to either a Nairobi city hotel or Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. Please note that the actual flight you are booked on is subject to availability and will be confirmed upon booking.