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:: The Masai Mara
Situated in the
heart of the Great Rift Valley, with
an area of 1,812 sq. km, limited to
the East by the Talek river and
Loita plains, Masai Mara, Kenya´s
leading Game Reserve, lies on the
border between Kenya and Tanzania
and is the northern extension to the
renowned Serengeti plain.
A reserve of
breathless vistas, a panorama of
vast rolling plains, hills and
woodland groves, well watered by the
Mara River, concentrating in its
proximities permanent populations of
wildlife: this is lion, leopard,
cheetah and elephant country, with
buffalo lurking in the forest and a
superb abundance of plains game:
zebras, Thompson and Grant gazelles,
topis ... But all this richness is
secondary to the Mara main
attraction: the annual migration,
which takes place between July and
September. Over a million
wildebeest, more than two hundred
thousand zebra with their attendant
predators cross the Mara River and
spread across the plains in a
seemingly endless procession.
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