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Maasai Mara National Reserve

Maasai Mara National Reserve Information

Opened in 1974, the Maasai Mara National Reserve is the most popular game parks in Kenya. From the Maasai tribe, the area is after this group of people who first migrated to the south Kenya from the Nile Valley in the middle of the 17th Century. The Maasai are nomadic herders who do not believe in the concept of land ownership, and choose instead to live in harmony with the wildlife grazing in the area. The reserve, which is a 320-square-kilometer (124-square-mile) piece of the famous Serengeti plains, inhabited by many of Africa's most popular wild animals, including lions, cheetahs, elephants, leopards, black rhinos and hippos. In addition, there are over 500 resident birds in the park including ostrich, lark, Sunbird and 57 species of birds of prey. The area is famous for rolling grassland and for the Mara River, which runs through the reserve from north to south. It is also the place for a kind of the best spectacles - the annual migration from the dry plains of Tanzania of thousands of wildebeest crossing crocodile-infested waters with a view to more fruitful pastures.

Air: Jomo Kenyatta International Airport Wilson Airport (domestic flights). Rail: By train: Naivasha Station (services of Nairobi), visitors will have to go on the road to the Maasai Mara. Road: Bus: Private tour operators run safaris in the Masai Mara National Reserve (from Nairobi and Lake Nakura). Car: Nairobi-Naivasha Road to Maai-Mahiu, then B3 to Ewaso Nyiro, then C12 to Aitong, then E177 (Nairobi), A1 (from Migori).

Contact Addresses

Maasai Mara National Reserve, PO Box 44595, Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: (02) 311 054 or 343 968
Website: www.maasaimara.info

Location

Kenya

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