Masai Mara Travel Information

The Masai Mara National Reserve is part of a huge conservation area that also includes the Serengeti National Park and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in neighbouring Tanzania. With no fences or man-made barriers, wildlife can move freely throughout this area, constantly recreating an ageless natural cycle.

The Miracle of the Migration of the Wildebeest
Known as the ‘greatest show on earth’ the annual migration of up to one and a half million animals between the dry plains of Tanzania and the lush grasslands of Kenya (and back again) has featured as an annual event on Earth’s calendar for the past two million years. And it’s still as extraordinary, enlightening and exciting an event as ever.

Taking place around the months of August and September the migration is a spectacle, both comic and tragic, that features the epic journey of vast herds of wildebeest between the grasslands of Kenya and Tanzania - flanked by a carnival of other herbivores and stalked by a ruthless pack of predators. As a vivid portrayal of the violence of the concept, ‘survival of the fittest’, this is a spectacle, not always for the faint-hearted, that goes beyond memorable and into momentous.

Recommended Accommodation Facilities in Masai Mara include:

• Mara Serena Safari Lodge
• Mara Sarova Tented Camp
• Karen Blixen Camp
• Cottars 1920's Safari Camp
• Elephant Pepper Camp
• Saruni Camp
• Mara Explorer Tented Camp
• Kichwa Tembo Main Camp
• Kichwa Tembo Bateleur Camp