Maasai Mara Game Reserve

The Masai Mara Game Reserve is one of the best known and most admired reserves in the whole of Africa. It lies in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya's south western corner. Mara is bounded in the east by the Ngama Hills and in the west by the Oloololo escarpment. Seasoned safari travelers, documentary makers and researchers often admit that the Masai Mara is one of their preferred places. The reason is perhaps it is because of its 'big skies', the open savannahs, the masai people who over the course of time forged out a symbiotic relationship with the wildlife, the romance of films like 'Out of Africa' and certainly because of the yearly wildebeest migration, the concentration of game including the ‘big five’, the diversity of birdlife and the excellent opportunity of taking a hot air balloon ride!
The great migration happens here annually between July and October where unimaginable numbers of wildebeest, zebra and gazelles sweeps into the Masai Mara from the Tanzania’s Serengeti in search of pasture. They pour across the border into the Mara, making a stunning entrance in a surging column of life that stretches from horizon to horizon. At the Mara river which is brimming with hippos and crocodiles the herds gather at the banks, piling together in front of the fast flowing waters and as the pressure built the herds finally surge into the river, many animals hurling themselves off high banks. As they struggle across the river many are drowned or swept away by strong currents while others are killed by the crocodiles. The Mara, as it is known in Kenya, is an adventure of a life time!

Masai Mara Game Reserve is located about 350 Km from Nairobi and covers an area of about 1510 sq Km.