Camp044 - Masai Mara Game Reserve > experience the Annual Great Migration!

Camp044 - Masai Mara Game Reserve - experience the Annual Great Migration!

 

The Masai Mara, with its rolling grasslands and wide-open savannah grasslands, is an unfettered, sprawling wilderness in south-western Kenya. This large game reserve, scaling in at 1, 672 square kilometers/ 1,039 miles, is effectively the northern continuation of Tanzania's Serengeti National Park. Named after the Maasai people (the traditional inhabitants of the area) and the Mara River, which divides it, it is famous for its diverse population of wild game and the annual migration of herbivores from Tanzania's Serengeti National Park. It is one of Kenya’s best loved game reserves in terms of visitors.

Between July and October the famous Mara throbs to the beat of hundreds of thousands of hooves of wildebeest, zebra and gazelles as millions of these herbivores cross into the Masai Mara from the Serengeti - a spectacle reffered to as the Great Wildebeest Migration. The Masai Mara, which - at about one third of the size of the enormous Serengeti National Park in neighbouring Tanzania, is more manageable from a game viewing point of view. Both Kenya and Tanzania share the vast Serengeti Plains, with the wildlife free to roam between Kenya and Tanzania in search of food and pasture.