Masai Mara is justly one of the best-known wildlife areas in Kenya. Here herds of elephant browse among rich, tree-studded grasslands. Thomson 's gazelles, zebra, eland and many more species of savannah game offer a rich choice for the predatory lions, leopards and cheetahs that hunt in the reserve and the adjoining areas.

But even this richness of fauna - the untouched life of Africa continuing as it has for thousands of years - is a secondary spectacle to the Mara 's annual migration of wildebeest. The sight of more than a million of these creatures moving as a great mass across the savannah is one of the most breathtaking sights in nature. The actual migration does not last very long and its start is impossible to predict accurately. Nevertheless visitors to the Masai Mara in August through September are certain to see the great herds of wildebeest and zebra.

DMC Companies

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• Liberty
• Micato Safaris
• Somak Travel Limited

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