3 Days Maasai Mara Safari

The wildlife reserve derives from the name of the Masai or Maasai people (who live in various areas of the Serengeti plain) and the Mara river and was established in 1961.

The surface is 320 km² and the whole area is crossed by the Great Rift Valley that joins the Mediterranean Sea to central Mozambique and is bordering on the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, with which it forms a single ecosystem. The reserve is known for its exceptional concentration of fauna and for the famous Great migration of wildebeest and zebras which takes place in April-May.

In the park there are all the so-called Big Five (lions, leopards, elephants, rhinoceroses and buffaloes) but the gnus are the main inhabitants (millions of specimens). They migrate from the Serengeti to the Masai Mara in the spring and vice versa in the fall. There are also many other species of antelope, in…