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  Masai Mara
The Masai Mara is a northern continuation of Africa's most famous National Park, the Serengeti in Tanzania.
Together, the Masai Mara and Serengeti make up one ecosystem; and animals pass across the political border between the two areas freely, as instinct and the seasons dictate.
By and large, the Mara is an area of breathtaking vistas with vast rolling plains stretching to the horizon.
www.tulsagymnastics.com /africa/Masai_Mara.html   (870 words)

  
 Kenya safari guide - Kenyalogy: Parks and reserves: Masai Mara National Reserve
Masai Mara is "The" park of parks in Kenya.
From July to October, Masai Mara is at its peak, with the seasonal visitors populating the vast grasslands.
But the Masai Mara region had already been deserted over the 19th century, when epidemics and tribal warfare decimated the Maasai people and drove them to a decline which they are still expecting to recover from.
www.kenyalogy.com /eng/parques/mara.html   (1199 words)

  
 Masai Mara Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Maasai Mara (also spelt Masai Mara) is a large park reserve in south-western Kenya, and is effectively the northern continuation of the Serengeti game reserve in Tanzania.
Named for the Maasai tribespeople (the traditional inhabitants of the area) and the Mara River which divides it, it is famous for its exceptional population of game and the annual migration of the wildebeest every September and October.
All other members of the Big Five are to be found in the Mara, although the population of Black rhino is severely threatened, with a population of only 37 recorded in 2000.
www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/masai_mara.html   (459 words)

  
 || Mara Safari Club, Masai Mara, Kenya - Discounted Rates ||
Your base for the adventure is the Mara Safari Club, which lies in the north west of the Masai Mara, at the foot of the Aitong Hills.
At the Mara Safari Club, the swimming pool, and nightly activities of wildlife slide shows, traditional dancing and talks on Masai culture, combined with your game viewing ventures, all make your experience in the Masai Mara excitingly unique and luxurious.
Mara Safari Club's luxurious en-suite tents, spread along an ox-bow of the Mara River, are erected on a concrete plinth and each have a game-viewing verandah.
www.shoortravel.com /marasafari.html   (317 words)

  
 Masai Mara Camps
In a private concession of 22,000 acres of land in the south eastern corner of the Masai Mara, Cottar's 1920s Camp recreates the safari experience of a bygone era.
Kichwa Tembo Bateleur Camp is an intimate, luxury camp in a private concession on the border of the Masai Mara National Reserve in south-western Kenya.
The camp faces onto the plains of the Masai Mara and lies in the path of the greatest spectacle in the animal world, the annual migration of wildebeest and zebra from the Serengeti.
www.rainbowtours.co.uk /countries/kenya/accommodation/masai-mara/index.shtml   (246 words)

  
 Masai Mara National Reserve   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Mara, as it is referred to, is 721 square miles and was established in 1961.
The Mara is an extension of the Serengeti National park of Tanzania, and is cushioned by the Loita Hills in the east, Itong Hills in the North and Siria escarpment in the west.
An impressive feature is the annual migration of wildebeest, zebra and gazelle from the plains of the Serengeti that cross the Tanzanian border and rivers to reach the Mara's lush grassland from late June, hunted by the predators: lion, leopard, cheetah, hyena and circled by vultures as the journey unfolds.
www.kenya.com /masaimara.html   (873 words)

  
 Tim Trench Safaris - Masai Mara National Reserve   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Mara is essentially the northern end of the great Serengeti, which stretches into Tanzania, and is undoubtedly the richest part of this extraordinary ecosystem.
Throughout the year the Mara is a place of natural drama where the "Big Five" - elephant, buffalo, rhino, lion, and leopard - roam, together with hundreds of others from the fastest animal on earth, the cheetah, to one of the most secretive, the bat-eared fox.
As they near the northern end of their migration and enter the Masai Mara the migrating herds find their range bisected by the Mara River, a gently meandering watercourse packed with pods of grunting hippos and more than the occasional 20-foot crocodile.
www.timtrenchsafaris.com /mara.html   (420 words)

  
 Masai Mara - Kenya - Safari In Kenya
Masai Mara - Kenya - Safari In Kenya
Once the Masai Mara National Reserve's grass has been devoured and when fresh rain in Tanzania has brought forth a new flush there, the herds turn south, heading hundreds of kilometers back to Serengeti and the Ngorongoro plains.
Although July, August and September are the months when the Masai Mara plains are filled with migrating wildebeest and zebra, there is much resident wildlife year round.
www.africanmeccasafaris.com /kenya/safaris/parks/masaimara.asp   (776 words)

  
 Masai Mara Safari - Kenya safari travel guide to Masai Mara, east Africa
The Masai Mara is home to a great wildlife spectacle, as sometime between August and November more than two million wildebeest migrate from the Serengeti in search of water and grazing.
Kichwa Tembo overlooks the game-filled plains of the Masai Mara and is shaded by dense forest canopy.
The Masai Mara National Reserve lies directly in the path of what is considered to be the greatest spectacle in the animal kingdom: the annual migration of thousands of wildebeest and zebra from the Serengeti National Park of Tanzania.
safari.go2africa.com /kenya/masai-mara-safari.asp   (798 words)

  
 Masai Mara: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The maasai or masai are an indigenous african tribe of semi-nomadic people located primarily in kenya and northern tanzania....
The mara river is a river of africa, flowing in kenya and tanzania....
The Maasai Mara is a major research centre for the spotted hyena[Click link for more facts about this topic].
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/masai_mara.htm   (1296 words)

  
 Masai Mara
Masai Mara is Kenya's and arguably the World's most prolific wildlife conservation area.
With a rolling savannah landscape dotted with patchy shrubs and bush thickets, (Mara is a masai word meaning spotted), the reserve is the Kenyan part of the large ecosystem stretching south to Serengeti in Tanzania.
Conservation in the Mara is of paramount importance, and has been targetted at preservation of the wildlife, environment, land issues, human-wildlife conflicts and tourist practises.
www.shoortravel.com /masaimara.html   (510 words)

  
 Saruni Camp
The Mara is also o­ne of the best wilderness areas in Africa to observe rare species, like the rhino, the bat-eared fox or the nocturnal wildlife, from the bushbaby to the genet.
The highlight of the Masai Mara is the famous annual migration of wildebeest that move north from the Serengeti in Tanzania each July-August in search of fresh grazing.
The Masai Mara is, above all, the home of the Maasai, a traditional semi-nomadic people known for their beauty, intelligence and a deep love and understanding of the African wilderness.
www.sarunicamp.com /themasaimara.php   (453 words)

  
 Masai Mara photos : Masai Mara images   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
When we arrived in the Masai Mara on Sunday 23 February, the acacia trees were in blossom.
In the Masai Mara itself however, we saw a wide variety of wildlife and our search for big cats was very successful.
This area of the Mara lives up to its name as many species of plains animals are found in abundance, including a variety of gazelles, eland, hartebeest, waterbuck, zebra and topi.
www.mcdcwain.freeserve.co.uk /journal.htm   (2323 words)

  
 Wilderness>Maasai Mara
The Mara and Talek rivers are brimming with Hippos and Crocodiles.
The wildebeest bring new life to the Mara, not just through their cycle of regeneration of the grasslands, but for the predators who follow the herds.
The Mara is an awesome natural wonder, a place where Maasai warriors share the plains with hunting lions, a place of mighty herds and timeless cycles of life, death and regeneration.
www.magicalkenya.com /default.nsf/doc21/4YGEX3ADMY6?opendocument&l=1&e=1   (648 words)

  
 Kenya :: Kichwa Tembo, Masai Mara
Unfenced, the Mara is bounded in the east by the Ngama Hills and in the west by the Oloololo or Siria Escarpment.
Famously, the Mara is the northerly end of the Great Migration, that great primeval surge of wildebeest, zebra and antelope that sweeps in from Tanzania’s Serengeti to Kenya's Masai Mara as the Tanzanian grass starts to fail.
Hippos are abundant in the Mara River as are very large Nile crocodiles, who lay in wait for a meal as the wildebeest cross on their annual quest to find new pastures.
africanadrenalin.co.za /cca/kichwa_accom.htm   (1272 words)

  
 Masai Mara safaris, lodges and wildlife tours
It was opened in 1974 and is managed by the nomadic, pastoralist Masai tribe, who arrived in the area by the middle of the 17th century.
As of July, the vast herds of the Serengeti in Tanzania begin moving to the Masai Mara in the north, lured there by the rains and the fresh promise of green pastures.
The crossing of the Mara River is as gruesome as it is fascinating.
www.ecoafrica.com /african/travel/MasaiMara.html   (510 words)

  
 THE MASAI MARA
This short trip visits the prolific Masai Mara - made famous by the incredible yearly migration of millions of wildebeest and zebras.
We spend 4 nights at Kicheche Mara Camp, a luxury bush camp that is both intimate and authentic, with the wildlife quite literally on your doorstep.
The cuisine in the Masai Mara is quite superb - everything is fresh including the baking which is done daily at the camp.
www.exodus.co.uk /holidays/dwe.html   (445 words)

  
 Masai Mara Reserve, Kenya - top safari destination, east Africa
Home to a variety of wildlife, the Masai Mara is one reserve where you can see the 'Big Five' in a single mornings game drive.
The Masai Mara in Kenya stretches out over a flat grassy plain and is most famous for its annual migration of millions of wildebeest.
The Masai Mara National Reserve is one of the most popular reserves in Kenya.
www.go2africa.com /top_destinations/masai_mara.asp   (467 words)

  
 Masai Mara Conservancy
The Mara Conservancy plans to solve this problem by publishing its accounts (something that is unusual in Kenya) and farming out the collection of park fees to a separate, private company, so that there is no question of any funny business.
But the hope is that under the Mara Conservancy’s new, more transparent approach, some of the money will actually filter through to the Masai (and to their neighbours, who should then feel less inclined to hunt for food on the reserve).
Some of the Mara Conservancy’s board members are unpopular, and some people who are not on the board believe they should be.
www.igreens.org.uk /masai_mara_conservancy.htm   (746 words)

  
 Masai Mara   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The first several days in the Mara the weather had been quite pleasant— more or less clear mornings, and the usual clouding over during the afternoon, but no rain.
A young male was interested in the matriarch, sniffing and pawing around the termite mound, but she paid not the slightest attention to him.
Not all the action in the Mara was with the carnivores.
www.emimages.com /safari/mara.htm   (3086 words)

  
 Around The World - Masai Mara National Park
But this richness of fauna, this profusion of winged beauty and the untouched fragility of the lanscape, are all subordinate to the Mara's formost attraction, the march of the wildebeest.
Once the Mara grass has been devoured and when fresh rain in Tanzania has brought forth a new flush there, the herds turn south, heading hundreds of kilometeres back to Serengeti and the Ngorongoro plains.
In the reserve itself, options include: the Mara Sarova Camp with 150 beds; the Mara Sopa Lodge with 144 beds; the Mara Serena Lodge with 152 beds; the Keekorok Lodge with 158 beds; Governor's Camp with 76 beds; Little Governor's Camp with 34 beds; and the Mara Intrepids Club with 60 beds.
www.indiatravelite.com /discoverworld/masaimaranationalprark.htm   (560 words)

  
 Accommodation Masai Mara | Masai Mara Accommodation, 3 Accommodation Establishments in Masai Mara
Mara Explorer is situated on a broad, thickly forested bend of the Talek River in the middle of the Maasai Mara National Reserve.
Mara Explorer's own all-weather airstrip means you can be in camp less than an hour after leaving the bustle of Nairobi.
Situated on the banks of the picturesque Mara River is Olonana, a premier bush camp whose unique location offers remarkable opportunities for safari adventurers.
www.safarinow.com /destinations/Masai-Mara?a=10986   (213 words)

  
 Rekero Traditional Tented Camp - Masai Mara, Kenya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Amidst the teeming mass of wildlife in the Masai Mara area, Rekero’s tented camp is currently inside the Masai Mara Game Reserve, very close to the confluence of the Mara and Talek rivers.
This mobile camp is ideally situated for the annual migration, which is the movement of one million wildebeeste and other animals from the Serengeti through the Masai Mara in Kenya.
Jackson's father, a recidivist poacher, was hired as a ranger for the game department in South Masai land and later recruited as a tracker for Ron Beaton, a professional hunter who opened an eco-lodge called Rekero in the mid-1980s.
www.unchartedoutposts.com /africa/webpages/properties/rekero_tented.php   (842 words)

  
 Masai Mara Horseback Safari | Tours & Safaris - Overview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
'Mara' means 'spotted' or 'dappled', a reference to the acacia dotted savannas of Southern Kenya where the Maasai live.
This area is known as the Mara Triangle where we will be met with cold drinks and a barbeque lunch.
Our last moving day, re-crossing the Mara River having lunch en-route to camp which is set on the banks of the river.
www.getawayafrica.com /index.php?id=516   (554 words)

  
 Kenya Birds - Maasai Mara   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Together with the adjoining Serengeti it is one of the only places in the world where it is still possible to see vast herds of grazing animals.
The Mara is also one of the most likely spots for the Blue Quail, a rare intra African migrant.
The latter 2 are better placed for "Big 5" watching but Olkurruk, situated on top of the Siria Oloololo escarpment, has breathtaking views and the road down the escarpment is a good spot for birding, unfortunately it's been closed for the last couple of years and it's not clear when (or if) it will re-open.
www.kenyabirds.org.uk /mara.htm   (481 words)

  
 Mara Safari Club - Kenya Safari - Masai Mara
The luxurious Mara Safari Club is set in the Ol-Choro Oiroua Conservation Area, bordering the Masai Mara Game Reserve, at the foot of the Aitong Hills.
The Mara Safari Club is a four-hour drive from Nairobi, or a forty-five minute flight from Wilson Airport (Nairobi) with a ten-minute drive from Ngerende Airstrip.
Mara Safari Club has a total of 50 tents, of which 42 are twin-bedded and 8 double-bedded.
www.africanmeccasafaris.com /kenya/safaris/lodges/marasafariclub.asp   (946 words)

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