East Africa & Mauritius Private Jet Vacation

Maasai Mara Game Reserve

Take to the pink smudged poetry of the skies in your own private jet as you soar across the arc of the world to touch down in Nairobi. Onboard you can sip a fresh cocktail, enjoy gourmet food and sleep easy in the space and serenity of your own personal cabin with every air mile tailored to your needs. After Customs formalities, the excitement starts as you climb aboard your light aircraft transfer to the mists of the Maasai Mara Game Reserve.

Maasai Mara Game Reserve

Mara Plains Camp

Check in to your luxury tented camp at the Mara Plains. A sweeping raised deck provides the perfect lookout spot for watching the spotted golden eyed leopards wandering through the camp and for gazing out into the wild forever of the swaying savannah plains.

Mara Plains Camp

Mara Plains Camp

Mara Plains Camp at night

When darkness falls the Mara Plains Camp transforms itself into a heavenly retreat offering dining choices at par with those found on the most gourmet urban locations. After a bush dinner, there is nothing more wonderful than letting your eyelids flutter gently to the husky roar of a lion outside and falling deep into a dreamy sleep with the sounds of cheetahs calling across the grasslands only a stone’s throw away.

Mara Plains Camp - Breakfast Table

Rise early with the dawn chorus to embark on your first game viewing adventure through the rich and fertile pastures of the Mara Plains. With over three hundred thousand acres on your doorstep, this is a world barely touched by man, a place left to run wild with the pure spirit of nature.

Maasai Mara Game Reserve

Spend the afternoon roaming the grasslands and plains in an open top vehicle with a trained guide taking you to all the best spots. Watch lion cubs rough and tumble with their brothers in the shade, see families of wise elephants make their journey across the cracked dry earth and seek the rare sight of the Jacksons Widow bird doing its impressive dance as it tries to attract the attention of a mate. The lands of Africa are filled with wild secrets and your guide is the perfect person to help track down those incredible photogenic moments to capture and seal in your heart forever.

Maasai Mara Game Reserve

Maasai Mara Game Reserve

Maasai Mara Game Reserve

Maasai Mara Game Reserve

Mara Plains Camp - Bush Dinner

This evening enjoy a night cap on the wooden deck watching the moon rise red and bloody on the horizon. Listen to the call of the wild, untangle your thoughts and let go of everything but this one precious moment before drifting into a revitalizing sound sleep.

Maasai Mara Game Reserve

Opt to take a hot air balloon ride across the splendor of the plains. Wake up early, rise high and watch the dramatic sunlight spill her yolk across the expanse of Africa. This is your chance to truly soak up the changing colors of the wild world, admiring the landscape that smudges from red to gold to orange.

Maasai Mara Game Reserve

Enjoy a lunch out on the banks of the wild, where fat hippos sink down languidly in the thick chocolate mud and crocodiles bathe in the drench of sunlight on the banks. Spend the afternoon walking through bush and briar with your local guide, stumbling upon long necked giraffes chomping on leaves, baby leopards mewling from the trees and wild dogs slinking into the shadows of the thick dark forests.

Maasai Mara Game Reserve

Maasai Mara Game Reserve

Maasai Mara Game Reserve

Maasai Mara Game Reserve

Mara Plains Camp

As evening drops its cloak around the wild, you can watch the stars fall wrapped in a blanket and listen to ancient Maasai stories around a flickering fire.

Angama Mara

After rising early to watch another wildlife spectacle you will be taken once more for a scenic flight to Angama Mara, the place to call home for the next few nights. Taken from the lyrical Swahili language, Angama means hanging in midair, like a cloud drifting through the sky or the stars scattered across the expanse of space. Once you see your luxury accommodation clinging to the edge of the Great Rift Valley, literally suspended over the rim you will fall head over heels in love with the magic of the Mara Triangle, a place where the sunlight throws dancing shadows never stops and the game viewing is some of the best in the world.

Angama Mara

Wildebeest Crossing

This afternoon you have the rare chance to witness firsthand one of nature’s greatest events, the Mara River crossing. Front row seats are there for you to enjoy with a private track descending directly down to see the river. Here you can watch a myriad of wildebeest take the leap of faith over the gushing waters where yellow eyed crocodiles lay in wait, waiting for the penultimate moment to catch a stray.

Angama Mara

Take a lap in the infinity pool as you watch the magic of the African landscape at its best. Relish in a delectable dinner under a blazing glory of stars as you listen to the sounds of lions and leopards hunting in the tall grasses right below your feet.

Angama Mara

Out of Africa

Leave the luxury of the lodge at dawn and make your way down the private road and straight into the heart of Hemmingway’s Africa. As soon as you hit the valley floor you will be surrounded by abundant herds grazing, the big five dotted across the landscape, and acacias sending their unforgettable shadows across the floor.

Out of Africa

Out of Africa

Let a Maasai naturalist escort you to a lonely hill, a place where the panoramic views pierce your mind. Unpack a picnic basket of crisp cold champagne, delectable nibbles, and the finest gourmet treats as you sit back in your canvas chair and let the sights and sounds of Africa wash over you.

Angama Mara Team

Angama Mara Team

Angama Mara Team

Angama Mara Team

The surroundings make Angama Mara a place of wonder. Its devoted staff make it extraordinary. Enjoy dinner in a way that celebrates both time and place, the food at Angama Mara is all about sumptuous cuts of the finest locally reared meats, seafood plucked from the closest waters, leafy greens, home baked breads, and fruits taken from the nearby bountiful trees.

Angama Mara Team

Angama Mara Team

Angama Mara Team

Angama Mara Team

Angama Mara Team

Angama Mara Team

Angama Mara Team

Angama Mara Team

Angama Mara Team

Angama Mara Team

Angama Mara Team

Angama Mara Activities

Start the day with an early morning walking safari and a chance to capture some amazing shots as you traverse rolling hills, gentle grasslands, rocky ridges and raging rivers. With a camera in hand keen photographers can put their point and shoot to the test to immortalize some of Mother Nature’s most amazing moments. From a flock of birds taking flight to a thousand wildebeest on foot, a lioness taking down her prey and a baby elephant tumbling after his mother, the Great Rift Valley is a photographers' dream.

Angama Mara Wildlife

Angama Mara Wildlife

Angama Mara Wildlife

Angama Mara Wildlife

Maasai Culture

After a luscious lunch lazing beneath the acacia trees you can spend the afternoon at leisure or learn all about the ways of the Maasai people. From learning how to weave and bead with the local women to interacting with the local community, watching the warriors perform their dance and playing with the children, this is your chance to plunge into a cultural immersion like no other.

Maasai Culture

Angama Mara Dining

Caught somewhere between heaven and earth you can spend the evening lounging easy with a whiskey in hand, admiring the very views that were used as the setting for Out of Africa. Tumble into the bliss of bed and watch the stars flickering like fireflies above your head.

Angama Mara Dining

Angama Mara Dining

Angama Mara Dining

Angama Mara Dining

Singita Sasakwa Lodge

Another dawn awakening to watch the predators return from their night hunting precedes a lingering breakfast and quick transfer on a light aircraft to the Singita Sasakwa Lodge in neighboring Tanzania. The western corridor of the Serengeti lies like the beating heart on the route of the Great Migration. You can witness for yourself the thundering chaos of scores of wildebeest and zebra making their way across Africa seeking more fertile plains.

Singita Sasakwa Lodge

Singita Sasakwa Lodge

Singita Sasakwa Lodge

Check into the impressive and stately Edwardian manor house of the Singita Sasakwa Lodge, a place resounding in refined elegance and style. Antique furnishings, thick set stone walls, exceptional views from the sprawling verandahs and silverware set onto white linen create a sterling oasis in the depths of deepest East Africa. In your cottage suite you will find a gleaming fireplace waiting to be stoked, a private deck with breath taking views, and an infinity pool for the perfect sunset dip.

Singita Sasakwa Lodge

Singita Sasakwa Lodge

Singita Sasakwa Lodge

This evening you can dine on some of the highest caliber dishes to be found in Africa, paired with the perfect wines to keep your senses swimming in bliss. Return to your private cottage where a valet will have stoked the fire, turned down the warm cotton sheets and ensured that every detail is beautifully tailored to welcome you into a world of slumber.

Grumeti Wildlife

Grumeti Wildlife

One of the best things about staying in the grip of the Grumeti is the fact that you are far from the beaten track and in an incredible spot for witnessing even more of the great migration. This morning you can seek lion, leopard and cheetah with your guide, you can catch sight of rare bat eared foxes and you can feel the earth shake with the movement of the wildebeest.

Grumeti Wildlife

Grumeti Wildlife

Horseback Safari

After a picnic lunch perched high above the plains of the Serengeti you can choose to take a horseback safari through the swaying grasslands. There is nothing comparable with the dry dust kicking up behind you as you gallop through the golden grasses of the savannah beneath a razor sharp blue sky that is slowly becoming tinged with pink.

Hot Air Ballon Ride over Grumeti

Take a sunset hot air balloon ride before dinner or choose to taste a selection of exquisite wines from the depths of the cellar. This is your moment, this is your Africa.

Grumeti Wildlife

Start the morning with a big game drive, relishing the fact that every day on safari in Africa brings forth something new to send your heart and soul reeling. Perhaps today is the day you will see the black and white colobus monkeys swinging from the trees, a pod of hippos settle into the mud with a grumble and sigh, or the infamous crocodiles snap their jaws as the wildebeest leap across the roaring waters.

Grumeti Wildlife

Grumeti Wildlife

Singita Sasakwa Lodge Pool

After an early morning on safari why not treat your senses to something special and soothe your body, mind and soul with one of the signature spa treatments on offer at the Singita Sasakwa Lodge. Sip a cocktail beside the pool and drink up the view that spreads out like a tapestry below your feet, a place where the plains and the mountains smudge into each other creating an outstanding picture of pure beauty.

Singita Sasakwa Lodge

Singita Sasakwa Lodge

This evening you can linger lovingly over another perfect dinner. Even for Michelin star aficionados, the chef at the Singita Sasakwa Lodge certainly knows how to pull out all the stops and bowl you over with every bite. Tempt your taste buds with artful international cuisine or delve into the full experience by going local with your choices.

Ngorongoro Crater

Sip your morning cup of dark and deep coffee on the verandah watching the morning mist rise with the heat of the fierce African sun. Enjoy a transfer aboard your light aircraft high above the pastures, plains and shimmering mountains as you make your way to the fabled Ngorongoro Crater.

Ngorongoro Crater

Ngorongoro Crater Lodge

As you touch down in the ancient bowl where the man left his first footprints on the earth you will be whisked away to the AndBeyond Ngorongoro Crater Lodge, without a doubt one of the most impressive, sumptuous and silkily luxurious safari suites you have ever seen. Inspired by the traditional Maasai way of building you can expect handcrafted thick mud exteriors, thatched roofs lovingly entwined, hand carved wood at every turn all hosting an interior filled to the brim with one of a kind antiques, grandiose chandeliers, floor to ceiling windows, and beautifully tailored personal service from your very own butler.

Ngorongoro Crater Lodge

Ngorongoro Crater Lodge

Dinner is ever an event at AndBeyond, you can expect a smorgasbord of fragrances, flavors, and fabulous finesse on the plate to keep you exclaiming time and time again. Finish with a night cap on the terrace listening to the sounds of nature’s fiercest predators preparing for the prowl as you stifle a yawn and dream of a soft as bliss bed waiting for you.

Ngorongoro Crater Lodge

Lake Magadi

The day starts with divine delight as your butler brings you a steaming cup of coffee to enjoy on your balcony. After a deliciously hearty breakfast you can prepare yourself to see one of the wonders of the wild world at the Ngorongoro Crater. Pink flamingos stand in their dusky rose colored shoals on the shores of Lake Magadi, jackals slink away with a sneer into the thickets of the forest, cheetahs slink in and out of the trees, gazelles leap and bound in loving pairs, and the marshes are thick with elephants.

Ngorongoro Crater

Olduvai Gorge

Take a banquet lunch on the crater floor for a rare experience that few have had the chance to enjoy. Your personal butler will be there to pour the wine, you can sit back in the shade and marvel at wild ostriches and monkeys only a stone’s throw away as you butter your freshly baked bread. After lunch visit the shifting sands and go right back to your roots at the cradle of civilization known as the Olduvai Gorge.

Ngorongoro Crater Lodge

Enjoy a famous rose petal dinner, imagine a banquet hall bedecked in a carpet of red rose petals, the fragrance mingling in the air, the champagne chilling on ice, and a delicate feast designed with pure pleasure in mind.

Mt. Kilimanjaro

Gulfstream V Interior

Today you will have two opportunities to soar above the snowcapped peaks of majestic Mt. Kilimanjaro. First on your light aircraft that will transfer you to your private jet waiting at Kilimanjaro airport ready to take you to paradise. As your private jet lifts up you can lean back in your plump comfortable chair, sip something sweet and dream of plunging into waters as blue as a milkmaids eye.

Mauritius

Landing in Mauritius your luxury transfer is waiting to take you to a place of pure dreams at the One and Only Resort. A haven of lush tropical gardens, gaudy feathered birds singing in the bright morning, sands so silky it is as though they are spun from creamy cashmere, and coral reefs so bright they bloom with majesty beneath the gentle smudge of blue ocean. With your own personal Ivor-Spencer trained butler, a suite awash in freshly cut flowers and decadent chocolates and a harmonious blend of indoor and outdoor space you are sure to feel as though you have tumbled into Eden.

One and Only Mauritius

One&Only Mauritius - Indian Pavilion Restaurant

One&Only Mauritius - Indian Pavilion Restaurant

One&Only Mauritius - Indian Pavilion Restaurant

One&Only Mauritius - Indian Pavilion Restaurant

One&Only Mauritius - Indian Pavilion Restaurant

Enjoy dinner in the gloriously gorgeous Indian Pavilion. Right on the water’s edge with sunset views of the green laced mountains and the soft lit lagoon you can relish the taste of murgh tikka butter thick on the tongue, soft pillowy naans, and lamb shank cooked so slow and lovingly it simply melts from the bone.

Then retire to the comfort of your spacious suite and let the songbirds from the lush green tropical gardens outside and the soothing sound of the Indian Ocean waves encircle your sleep.

One&Only Mauritius Suite

One&Only Mauritius

Wake up to the wonder of paradise, do a little yoga on the deck and then eat a sumptuous breakfast taking your time to savor the freshest fruits plucked from the trees. The day is yours and yours alone, whether you want to tee off on the glorious green, splash in the azure blue or simply relax in the hammock with a good book.

One&Only Mauritius

One&Only Mauritius

There are a plethora of things to do at the One&Only, snorkel in the azure colors watching shoals of shimmering fish pass beneath your feet, or take the catamaran out for an afternoon expedition on the high seas. Those who want to take it one step further can dive down into the deep for rare up close and personal encounters with an array of evocative marine life.

One&Only Mauritius - Activities

One&Only Mauritius - Prime Restaurant

Opt for a modern dinner at the illustrious Prime Restaurant where sleek and sexy style urge you to dress in your best, order an exceptional bottle, and rekindle your love affair with food. Beautifully cooked steaks, rock lobster to make the mouth water and signature cocktails keep the evening a classy affair.

One&Only Mauritius - Prime Restaurant

One&Only Mauritius

Start the day by running barefoot down the sands to plunge into the blue bliss of the ocean before taking breakfast, this is exactly what freedom feels like. After a leisurely morning you can unwind with one of the signature spa or massage treatments calling on the bounty of Mother Nature’s best ingredients, think hewn coconuts spilling their sweet milk, tangled strands of amber honey and dark and sultry brown sugar.

One&Only Mauritius - Massage

One&Only Mauritius - Activities

This afternoon you can explore the grace and glory of the coastline, the exotic flora and fauna and the hidden secrets and swimming holes that makes Mauritius such a dream to behold. Colorful markets spill over with scents, colonial homes sit etched in history, and botanical gardens bloom and blaze creating a fairytale come true.

One&Only Mauritius - Activities

One&Only Mauritius - La Terrasse Restaurant

Tonight may be the perfect time to sit on La Terrase and let the sea be the soundtrack to your romantic candlelit dinner. Creole cuisine blends beautifully with freshly plucked seafood to give dinner a delectable warming twist, the perfect array of flavors to devour with the cool ocean breeze tousling your hair.

One&Only Mauritius - La Terrasse Restaurant

One&Only Mauritius - La Terrasse Restaurant

One&Only Mauritius - Activities

White sands and wonder welcome you back to the world as soon as your eyelids flutter open. Spend the morning indulging in a game of tennis, swim a few laps in the generous pool, or simply sleep in, enjoying every lingering moment in your sublime suite.

One&Only Mauritius - Activities

One&Only Mauritius - Activities

This afternoon you can spend a little time splashing in paradise. The beaches of Mauritius are sure to take your breath away, calling on every cliché in the book. Silky soft sands backed by fragrant greenery, water so clear it sloshes like sapphire gin and temperatures that will have you frolicking beneath the blue for hours.

One&Only Mauritius - Pool

One&Only Mauritius - Massage

One&Only Mauritius - Spa

One&Only Mauritius - Spa

Go back to the marvelous spa for a farewell treatment Enjoy a private dinner and special wine tasting session, with over two hundred vintage wines to choose from you can take your taste buds on a journey around the world. Let the sommelier guide you through an array of gorgeous grapes to suit both your palate and your mood.

One&Only Mauritius - Dining

Gulfstream V - 16 Seats

This morning after one last dip in the sweet salty sea, one last walk along the elegant stretch of curved white sands, and one more taste of truly exotic fruit for breakfast you can wave farewell to the wonder of Mauritius. As your private jet gathers speed on the runway and then seamlessly drifts high into the mist of the clouds, you can fall into a golden slumber punctuated with dreams of the wilderness of Africa and the sensory feast of pure paradise.