Masai Mara: The Great Migration happens Here!
Masai Mara Park, game/national reserve often called The mara is around 1530km2 at an altitude of 1.500m-1.850m and with broad diversity of animal concentration ranging from 94 species of mammals and 452 types of birds.
Among them are the big five:
- Lion
- Rhino
- Elephant
- Leopard and
- Buffalo
As you may have seen in many nature programs about Masai Mara Park it has seemingly endless grassland, plains with a touch of hills on the eastern and western side of the park.
The Mara-river, which has water throughout the year, flows from the northern to the southern part. Gallery forests, the smallest vegetation type, borders parts of it and its tributaries. "The Mara Triangle" is found on the west and is characterized by gradual hilly slopes from whose highest point there is a breathtaking view of the grassland. One of the amazing sites as seen in the movie out of Africa.
The Animal distribution is breath taking and magical. The endless grasslands attract zebras and rare antelope types and not far behind, their hunters- the leopard and the lion. Giraffes are characteristic of Masai Mara Park landscape. Ngama Hills bordering the East is the main residence of rhinos. The Mara-river is home to both crocodiles and hippos. The latter will also be found in large numbers at the famous "Hippo Pool" near the central part of the park.
The gallery forest inhabits a wide variety of birds and mammals from the nocturnal bush baby, the copper-tailored, velvet and blue monkey to the buffalo, baboon and elephant. Birds, some known to have killed lions to protect their eggs and young ones, such as the common ostrich, to harmlessly beautifully coloured vultures, from the fastest animal, the cheetah to the most secretive, the bat-eared fox.
Hemmingway and Roosevelt are witness to this excitement and experience! Absolutely nowhere on earth compares to this spectacle!
As the most visited Game Reserve in Kenya, Masai Mara Park is famous for its exceptional population of wild animals and the annual migration of zebra and the wildebeest from the Serengeti every July and August, a migration so immense it is called the Great Migration!
You might consider this as worth noting, only this park allows a certain uncontrolled movement of safari 4wd jeeps, there are no fixed routes within the park that have to be stuck to. Masai Mara Park has expert driver-guides with years of experience and specializing only on the Maasai Mara. And remember Masai Mara Park remains one of the best places to see wildlife in Africa at its best and finest.
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