Build the trip around a location, not a fixed date — because the herds move on their own schedule regardless of your booking, the right approach is choosing camps positioned in the ecosystem where the migration is statistically most likely to be during your travel window, then trusting your guide's daily repositioning within that. Stay a minimum of three nights per migration-focused camp; two nights is not enough time to adapt to where the herds actually are versus where the calendar says they should be. Favor camps that move seasonally (several operators run true mobile camps that relocate with the herds through the year) or camps with strong inter-camp communication networks that share real-time sighting reports each morning. Build in one 'flex' day with no fixed plan if your budget allows — the single best migration moments we have witnessed came from a guide rerouting an entire day's plan on a radio tip. And resist the urge to chase the migration across two countries in one short trip purely to 'see everything' — a focused four or five nights in the right single location beats a rushed cross-border dash that spends half your trip in transit.