Maasai Mara National Reserve (Masai Mara National Reserve) is one of the most popular wildlife areas in Kenya and Africa. It is located in Southwestern Kenya, on the floor of the Great Rift Valley, in Narok County, Kenya, and borders Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, in the Mara Region/ Masai Mara region.
This game reserve was named in honor of the Masai people, who were the ancestral inhabitants.
The reserve was established in 1961 as a wildlife sanctuary, covering only 520 square kilometers of the current Mara Triangle.
The Masai Mara is more famous for the wildebeest migration that happens every year when more than a million and a half wildebeest herds accompanied by thousands of zebras and gazelles cross the crocodile-infested Mara River in a bid to cross from Serengeti to Masai Mara in search of greener pastures and drinking water. The Masai Mara is also famous for its large pride of lions and other cats, and the game reserve is where the BBC’s Big Cat Diaries was filmed.
Bordering the Masai Mara Game Reserve, the Serengeti National Park is the best national park in Africa and, indeed in the world. The park has been voted the number one wildlife park in the world by travelers and travel experts year in and year out, and it is the epicenter of the wildebeest migration because the cycle starts and ends here at this park. The herds also spend most of the year in this park. Apart from the wildebeest migration, the Serengeti National Park is home to many other animals and a great place to spot the big cats.
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