Masai Mara Kenya

  Masai Mara is the most visited park in Kenya,
due to its abundant wildlife especially the big five and great wildebeest
migration that has its peak in July through august.

Masai Mara location is 275 kilometres west of Nairobi at an altitude of 1700 metres above

sea level. Masai Mara was opened in1974. Maasai Mara has a
rich habitat for many carnivores and herbivores.

Apart from
the unusual huge prides of lions, the most spectacular of the Mara is great
annual wildebeest migration.

Wildebeest Migration Masai Mara starts 

From mid
June to early October where herds of wildebeest numbering close to two million
travel from Serengeti national park in Tanzania to the Maasai Mara
reserve. The animals migrate into the Mara in search of fresh pastures.

The
highlight of the great migration is when the wildebeest cross the crocodile
infested Mara River
into Kenya. Thousands of

wildebeest break there legs in a stampede to jump into the Mara River
and cross the river a factor that leads the death of hundreds of wildebeest.
Crocodiles also kill as many wildebeest as they wish for food.