Reachable by road or air from Nairobi, the Mara is Kenya's premier place for seeing wildlife. It features many excellent game lodges and camps, and a wide network of dirt roads slice through its open rolling grassland and wooded savannah. Two sizable rivers, the Mara and Talek, wind through the landscape, flanked by gallery forests and seasonal marshes, game lodges and camps, and a wide network of dirt roads slice through its open rolling grassland and wooded savannah. Besides migrants, the Mara hosts resident populations of elephants, hippos, topis, hartebeests, buffalos, giraffes, Thomson's and Grant's gazelles, impalas, Kirk's dik-diks, and a few black rhinos.
Predators are plentiful, notably cheetahs, leopards, and unusually large prides of lions.
The gallery forests host primates and a number of birds usually found farther west. A specially arranged balloon safari will lift you into the clear blue sky at dawn and give you an eagle's view of the wildlife pageant below. You will climb until the Mara is a magical tapestry of landscape and the horizons of Africa are wider than the eye can see. As you land, Serena's hospitality matches the mood, with a sumptuous champagne breakfast - right there in the wild. The journey home is another game drive, to complete what is undoubtedly the experience of a lifetime.