Masai Mara

The Mara is a vast scenic expanse of gently cascading African savannah plains measuring 1,510km²  with an estimated 5.2 million wild mammals bringing the number of animals per square kilometer to about 3,400 and bordering the Serengeti national park in Tanzania to the south. The park has got Africa’s big 5 and high concentration of herbivores; – lions, leopards, cheetahs, elephants, buffaloes, wild beests, zebras, antelopes, waterbucks, hippos, ostriches, hyenas, wild dogs, giraffes among others. Tourists all over the world visit the Mara to participate along and experience the world’s largest migration of mammals including 2,000,000 wild beests, 400,000 zebras crossing from Serengeti national park to the Maras for fresh pastures, 850 to 900 lions, 200,000 antelopes, 300 cheetahs, 35-50 black rhinos, 33,000 giraffes, 2,500 elephants, 25 snake species, 21 lizard species. This great movement comes along heavy weight fights, deaths, animal families and escapes from giant water killers; the Nile crocodile at great multitudes cross to the vast Mara lands.