Maasai Mara National Park

 What a day it was - it was a full day outing in the vast wilderness of The Mara.  Saw the migration of  wild beasts in 1000s.  We were waiting for the next lot to cross the Mara River but the beasts just settled down on the other bank   in the Maara River saw a 20 foot long crocodiles as well few hippos too.

We saw lion just a table length away, zebras crossing our vehicles, antelopes taking a flight seeing our vehicles coming close, Ostriches running at great speeds crossing our vehicles, a huge old old female elephant eating grass at our arms length, a cheetah with 5 cubs trying to catch an hare unsuccessfully, antelopes, wild hogs, gazelles, wild Buffalo's,  a leopard trying to gain high ground walking in front of our vehicles, hyena taking a carcass and running away, various birds including eagles,  guinea fowls etc.












What an eventful day it was.   While returning back  even when we sighting zebra we became so used to it that it felt like we were seeing cows grazing in our back yard.

Info about The  Mara

Maasai Mara, also sometimes spelled Masai Mara and locally known simply as The Mara, is a large national game reserve in Narok, Kenya, contiguous with the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. It is named in honour of the Maasai people, the ancestral inhabitants of the area, who migrated to the area from the Nile Basin. Their description of the area when looked at from afar: "Mara" means "spotted" in the local Maasai language, due to the many short bushy trees which dot the landscape.



Maasai Mara is one of the most famous and important wildlife conservation and wilderness areas in Africa, world-renowned for its exceptional populations of lion, leopard, cheetah and African bush elephant. It also hosts the Great Migration, which secured it as one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Africa, and as one of the ten Wonders of the World.



The Greater Mara ecosystem encompasses areas known as the Maasai Mara National Reserve, the Mara Triangle, and several Maasai Conservancies, including Koiyaki, Lemek, Ol Chorro Oirowua, Mara North, Olkinyei, Siana, Maji Moto, Naikara, Ol Derkesi, Kerinkani, Oloirien, and Kimintet.

Courtesy Wikipedia 



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