Masai Mara Game Reserve

• Kenya’s biggest game reserve
• Setting for the annual Great Migration
• Spectacular Big Five sightings

The Masai Mara is a huge 1 672km² tract of land in the south-western corner of the country, on the border with Tanzania. The vast, grassy Serengeti plain stretches all the way into Tanzania, where it is part of the Serengeti National Park.

The wildlife wanders free between the countries, unhindered by fences or park controls. There are many different safari operators and camps and the game viewing is fantastic, with readily made sightings of the Big Five (lion, leopard, elephant, rhino and buffalo).

Special features include:

• The Great Migration
  This annual event is the crowning event on the wildlife calendar. Millions of animals, including vast herds of wildebeest, zebra and other antelope, trailed by predators take to the plains in search of better grazing. Largely weather dependent, it is hard to predict where the migration will be and when. Normally starting around July-August, the animals then move northwards, crossing the Grumeti River in a spectacular display of death, drowning and attacks by crocodiles. The animals usually return in October
  
• Maasai
  The Maasai are one of Kenya’s many proud and indigenous tribespeople. Brightly clad in their red robes, these people are also co-owners of the reserves and share in revenues from tourism