Two weeks across five wildlife nations, built around one signature wilderness per leg: the Serengeti’s great migration, Kruger’s big five, the thunder of Victoria Falls, and the water-world of the Okavango Delta. Light internal flights stitch the parks together; every gateway city is a real destination in our data.
East Africa to the Delta, gateway by gateway.
East Africa’s safari capital and the rolling plains of the Mara.
Big cats on open grassland in the year’s best light — the Mara is the Kenyan half of the Serengeti ecosystem and arguably the finest big-cat country on earth. The first morning sets the tone for the whole trip.
☀ First light; predators are active before the heatArrive Nairobi, then fly into the Mara. Spend two nights in a tented camp with morning and late-afternoon drives. Nairobi itself rewards a day on the way out — the elephant orphanage and Nairobi National Park, the only big-game park inside a capital city.
The greatest wildlife stage on the planet.
Over a million wildebeest and zebra moving across endless plains, trailed by every predator in Africa — the single most extraordinary wildlife spectacle on earth, and the trip’s peak. The Ngorongoro Crater next door packs the big five into one collapsed caldera.
☀ Jun–Oct for the migration in the northern/central SerengetiArusha is the gateway to Tanzania’s northern circuit. Fly into the Serengeti for two nights, then descend into the Ngorongoro Crater — a UNESCO World Heritage Site where 25,000 large animals live on the crater floor.
Southern Africa’s flagship park, the easiest big-five country to reach.
The Sabi Sand reserves bordering Kruger offer the closest, most reliable leopard sightings in Africa, with off-road tracking the national park doesn’t allow. This is where you complete the big five.
☀ Dawn & dusk drives; the dry season concentrates game at waterholesConnect through Johannesburg to a lodge on the Kruger boundary for two nights. With time, the city’s Apartheid Museum and Soweto are a powerful day before the bush.
The largest curtain of falling water on earth.
A mile-wide wall of water dropping into a gorge, its spray visible from miles away — a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the natural counterweight to weeks of wildlife. A deliberate change of register before the final leg.
☀ Higher water Apr–Jun; the Devil’s Pool swim is best in the low-water monthsLivingstone sits on the Zambian side of the falls. Walk the rainforest viewpoints, take a sunset cruise on the Zambezi, and (for the brave) the Devil’s Pool at the lip.
A quiet, watery finale in the world’s largest inland delta.
Pole through still channels of lily and reed in a dugout canoe, elephants wading nearby — the Okavango is a UNESCO site and the most serene wildlife experience in Africa. The trip is engineered to end calm and remote, by light aircraft into the Delta.
☀ The flood peaks Jun–Aug, when the Delta is most aliveMaun is the gateway to the Okavango. Fly by light aircraft to a Delta camp for two nights of water-based safari — mokoro, walking, and game drives on the islands — the perfect, peaceful close to the trail.
/v1/circuits/safari-trail. Park names, UNESCO status and migration timing are widely-documented; health, flight and luggage notes are operator-reported and should be re-verified before travel.