The final place we visited in our tour was the Maasai Mara which makes up the northern tip of the
Serengeti in Kenya. Every stereotype about Africa that Disney brought to The Lion King and nearly every documentary about migration has its roots in this preserve. The word Mara in the language of the
Maasai people means 'spotted' and the picture below illustrates how the savanna is speckled with vegetation as far as the eye can see.
The Maasai Mara is also the location of the Mara River which is the famous crossing made by the wildebeest migration every year as millions of the animals come north from the Serengeti to graze and mate. The waters were quite low when we were there, but the banks looked quite rocky and treacherous as it was and neither of us envied the wildebeest their crossing.
As there's so much to see and do there, we had 5 days there and in that time we had wonderful encounters with elephants, lions, cheetahs, topi, leopard, warthogs, jackals, hippos, cape buffalo, dwarf mongeese, and birds of all shapes and sizes.
The Maasai Mara is also the location of the Mara River which is the famous crossing made by the wildebeest migration every year as millions of the animals come north from the Serengeti to graze and mate. The waters were quite low when we were there, but the banks looked quite rocky and treacherous as it was and neither of us envied the wildebeest their crossing.
As there's so much to see and do there, we had 5 days there and in that time we had wonderful encounters with elephants, lions, cheetahs, topi, leopard, warthogs, jackals, hippos, cape buffalo, dwarf mongeese, and birds of all shapes and sizes.
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