MAASAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE

Masai Mara – The sights, sounds, colors and spectacle that spell Africa. The Masai Mara National Reserve covers some 1,672 sq km. It is an extension of Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park. This is a land of short grasses, where the wind plays with the thick, green mantle after the rains and nine months later, whips up dust devils from the baked surface.

Everything is big in Mara. It is a country of breath-taking vistas, a panorama of vast rolling plains and rounded hills, of intermittent groves of acacia woodlands and dense thickets of scrub. The Mara River and its tributaries which are margined by luxuriant riverine forest bisect the whole. And in every direction there are seemingly endless herds of game animals.

Masai Mara is the most popular of Kenya’s parks and world famous for its vast assemblages of plains game together with their associated predators, its breathtaking beauty of its grassland savannah and the drama of its great migrating herds. Mara possesses the largest population of lions to be found in Kenya. Among thze great variety of large beasts are Buffalo, Black Rhino and Hippopotamus. Other mammals include Leopard, Cheetah, Common Zebra, Coke’s Hartebeest, White-bearded Gnu, Oribi, Warthog and Thomson’s and Grant’s Gazelles. The bird life of Mara is as profuse as its mammalian fauna.