Attraction Information
Maasai Mara National Reserve
Opened in 1974, the Maasai Mara National Reserve is the most popular game park in Kenya. Managed by the Maasai tribe, the area is named after this group of people who first migrated to South Kenya from the Nile Valley in the mid-17th century. The Maasai herdsmen are nomadic people who do not believe in the concept of land ownership and choose instead to live in harmony with the wildlife grazing in the area. The reserve, which occupies a 320-square-kilometre (124-square-mile) chunk of the famous Serengeti plains, is inhabited by many of Africa’s most popular wild animals, including lions, cheetahs, elephants, leopards, black rhinos and hippos. There are also over 500 resident birds in the park including ostrich, lark, sunbird and 57 species of birds of prey. The area is famous for rolling grassland and for the Mara River, which runs through the reserve from north to south. It is also the place for one of nature’s best spectacles – the annual migration from the dry plains of Tanzania of thousands of wildebeest crossing crocodile-infested waters in order to reach more fertile grazing.
Air: Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Wilson Airport (domestic flights). Rail: Train: Naivasha Station (services from Nairobi); visitors must then travel by road into the Maasai Mara. Road: Bus: Private tour operators run safaris into the Maasai Mara National Reserve (from Nairobi and Lake Nakura). Car: Nairobi–Naivasha Road to Maai-Mahiu, then B3 to Ewaso Nyiro, then C12 to Aitong, then E177 (from Nairobi); A1 (from Migori).
Contact Addresses
Maasai Mara National Reserve, PO Box 44595, Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: (02) 311 054 or 343 968
Website: www.maasaimara.info
Location
Kenya
Air: Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Wilson Airport (domestic flights). Rail: Train: Naivasha Station (services from Nairobi); visitors must then travel by road into the Maasai Mara. Road: Bus: Private tour operators run safaris into the Maasai Mara National Reserve (from Nairobi and Lake Nakura). Car: Nairobi–Naivasha Road to Maai-Mahiu, then B3 to Ewaso Nyiro, then C12 to Aitong, then E177 (from Nairobi); A1 (from Migori).
Contact Addresses
Tel: (02) 311 054 or 343 968
Website: www.maasaimara.info
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