Maasai
Mara among world's top 10 tourist sites
According to the World Wildlife Fund for Nature's website, the game reserve is among the 10 ideal places that tourists should visit this month. WWF ranked it as the fourth best tourist attraction.
Why?
It is said that no trip to Kenya would be complete without a trip to Maasai
Mara...
The word Mara means 'spotted', which refers to both the landscape, which is patched with groves of acacia and thorn bushes, and the colours of the various animals dotted around its vast, open grasslands.
From July to October, more than 1.3 million wildebeest & zebra begin to form a single herd that migrates from Serengeti into the Mara making it one of the world’s greatest natural spectacles.
This vast number of animals is moving to follow the rain patterns and the lush grass that springs up afterwards - so avoiding the relative drought which they leave behind. And where these grass eaters go, so do the meat eaters...
The Maasai Mara is also home to a variety of other wildlife, including the Big Five as well as cheetah, crocodile, hippo, hyena, and over 450 species of birds.