The Masai Mara National Reserve is extraordinary. The private conservancies next door are extraordinary and empty. Conservancies like Naboisho, Mara North and Ol Kinyei border the reserve but operate completely differently: only guests of registered camps are permitted inside. No public vehicles. No convoys at a sighting. Just your guide and the animals. Night game drives are also permitted in the conservancies: something strictly prohibited in the national reserve itself: which opens up an entirely different cast: leopards on the hunt, aardvarks digging, honey badgers moving through the grass, the Mara after dark. A 45-minute flight from Wilson Airport gets you here with no road journey. Your guide meets you at the airstrip.
The Great Migration moves through this territory from July to October, so the timing is right for river crossings without the queue of vehicles you find in the public reserve. Conservation fees from every stay go directly to the Maasai communities who own the land.
