Maasai Mara Game Reserve

[tater03]

I was just reading that this game preserve was recently voted one of the new seven wonders of the world. I never knew this but the movie "Out of Africa" was filmed here. If you get a chance to look this place up it is almost a definete must see when you go to Kenya. Just thought I would share this with you all that might be thinking about going to Kenya.

[Gaylene]

Alot can be said about the Maasai Mara but just to get you a clue of what its all about.This is where you must go ,you cannot visit Kenya and not go to the Mar.The Mara, as the Maasai Mara Game Reserve is commonly known, is part of the ecosystem that includes the equally famous Serengeti of Tanzania. Covering 320 square kilometers, it is nested in the southwestern corner of the country. The Mara offers wildlife in such variety and abundance that it is difficult to believe. In a recent two-night visit, I saw lions, rhinos, hippos, crocodiles, giraffe, wildebeests, zebras, buffalo, warthogs, hyenas, jackals, wild dogs, buffalo, leopard, nine kinds of antelopes and elephant. The birds are also in plenty -secretary birds, cranes, stork, vultures and ostriches.

It is in the Mara that perhaps the most spectacular event of the natural world takes place. I refer to the annual migration of millions of wildebeest and zebra from the Serengeti in search of water and pasture. The timing of the phenomena is conditional on the rains and occurs between June and August. The reverse journey is usually taken in October. With or without the migration the Mara has abundant numbers of resident animals and you are sure to have a good wildlife viewing experience whatever time of the year you visit.

Its in the Mara you will get to meet the East Africas most celebrated indigenous people,the Maasai tall, dark and slender.

[traveller1]

Masai mara is a great place to visit. Other places you might want to consider is Amboseli National Park, and Nakuru National Park. Masai mara i would say is great during the annual wildebeest migration which occurs between July and October.

[Hank Freid]

With its rolling grasslands and wide-open savannah, the Masai Mara is the kind of unfettered, sprawling wilderness you will have discovered in Hollywood films set in Africa. Kenya's finest reserve, the Masai Mara pulses with raw energy as an array of animals go about their daily lives.At certain times of the year the famous Mara throbs to the beat of hundreds of thousands of hooves as the Great Wildebeest Migration takes place.I would commanded is great during the annual wildebeest migration.