Wildlife Safaris and Tourism of Maasai mara national Reserve : Maasai Mara National Reserve is located in the southern part of Kenya along the Great Rift Valley and the reserve is found in Narok country in Kenya. Maasai Mara national reserve is located 224 kilometers away from the capital Nairobi. Maasai Mara National Reserve borders the famous Serengeti (25,000 square kilometers in size), the two parks are the part of the world’s oldest ecosystem that is the Mara-Serengeti ecosystem, besides Virunga in Congo that spreads to Rwanda covering an area of Volcanoes national park.
Maasai Mara National Reserve has got the precious rolling hills, sprawling savannahs, dramatic river crossing and of course more wildlife and adventure than any movie could ever portray, the reserve is a home to the big 5, other mammal species, the Maasai Mara also is the temporary residence of the Great migration.
Wildlife safaris and tourism of Maasai Mara National Reserve.
Maasai Mara National Reserve is the mostly popular and known national reserve so the reserve is the most visited and well-known because of its wildlife safaris in not only east Africa but also in Africa. Maasai Mara National Reserve is famous for hosting the big 5 mammals that includes the elephants, lions, buffalos, rhinos, and the leopards, the reserve hosts the indigenous black rhino population. During sometime back during the early 1970’s and the 1980’s there was an increase poaching of the black rhinos that later decreased in number, but the few that remained have now again increased in number which has make Maasai Mara still to be the most famous place in Kenya where you can spot the black rhinos as well as the mammals in the entire Africa.
Minus the amazing mammals, the big five in the reserve, Maasai Mara National Reserve is a home to variety of other mammals as these also attract more tourists in the reserve as they include the duikers, impala, hartebeests, giraffes, roan antelopes, zebras, topi, Thomson’s gazelles, as the amount of the some antelopes in the reserve are affected on the season because of the great migration from Serengeti national park in Tanzania and the Loita plains. Other animal species that the reserve hosts include the cheetahs, hyenas, jackals, crocodiles, Hippopotamus and many more.
Maasai Mara national reserve has got the birding safaris where the reserve hosts over the 500 species of birds, and a daunting 47 species of birds of prey, the Maasai Mara treetops, bushes and skies are a feast for bird watcher’s eyes, the reserve is the best place where you can spot a variety of the bird species that includes the crowned cranes and African pygmy-falcons, long-crested eagles, ostriches, vultures, African finfoot, African wood owl, Ayres’s hawk eagle, Giant Kingfisher, Lazy cisticola, Purple grenadier, Grey penduline tit, Cinnamon, breasted bunting, secretary birds and many more bird species.
Most of the tourists prepare their safaris in Kenya to Maasai Mara National Reserve due to the great Wildebeest Migration, this is the period when millions and millions of wildebeest and thousands of zebras migrate from Serengeti National Park in Tanzania to the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya as in searching for the water and the fresh pastures. Wildebeest migration is the excellent opportunity to witness the battles between the predator and the prey. The wildebeest migration starts in July and ends around October that is the time of the migration provides the best safaris experience to the tourists and that is the period when the tourists can be crowded in the reserve.
Other tourists, who want more private safaris, who need to go during the rainy season that is in the months of November and April to May, thought there cannot be the wildebeest migration, but the guests can as well the reserve to view various animal species, and also do bird watching for the bird lovers, the reserve offers abundant wildlife and spectacular scenery but are managed by the Maasai people.
The Maasai Mara National Reserve features a stunning kaleidoscope of wild and rugged landscapes, warm and welcoming people and an exciting array of creature, the big and small. World famous for hosting the epic Great Migration, the Maasai Mara welcomes 1,5 million wildebeests into its sprawling savannahs each July and October.
