The classic Kenyan combination done properly: three full days of big game in the Masai Mara, then a short flight to the coast and three days of white sand, warm water and dhow sunsets at Diani. Early mornings earn the lie-ins.
Flying between the two means no wasted day on the road. You leave the Mara after a dawn game drive and are in the Indian Ocean by mid afternoon. Diani gives you reef snorkelling, colobus monkeys in the beachfront forest and seafood dinners with sand underfoot.
Drive to the reserve with an afternoon game drive to open the safari.
Dawn-to-dusk day with the big cats and a picnic by the river.
Different country today, from the marsh prides to the border plains.
Last dawn drive, bush flight out of the Mara airstrip and toes in the Indian Ocean by afternoon.
Beach day: reef snorkelling in the morning if you like, hammock diplomacy thereafter.
Optional Wasini dhow trip with dolphin watching and a Swahili seafood lunch, or another blissful day of nothing.
Morning at the beach, afternoon flight from Ukunda to Nairobi and onward connections.