About two hundred and seventy five kilometres west of Nairobi, Masai Mara is part of the Serengeti ecosystem in Northern Tanzania. It has existed as a game conversation area since 1889.

It was confirmed as a Game Reserve in 1974. The reserve consists of well watered grassland plains, standing at an altitude of 1650 meters and crossed by two rivers; the Mara and the Talek.

The great variety of game offers a wide choice of food for the predatory lion, leopard, cheetah, hyena, wild dog, jackals and thousands of other lower carnivores. It is a self contained world where survival of the fittest is the order of the day. The Mara River which is frequently flooded during the rains houses schools of hippo and large colonies of crocodile.

However, all the richness of fauna and unspoiled life of Africa, decorated by the culturally rich Masai people is secondary to the Mara’s major attraction – the world famous and most spectacular annual animal mass migration of nearly two million wildebeest and zebra from the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania to the Mara (July to September) and back to Serengeti in January/February. Every year the herds bull leader taste the wind at the beginning of the long rains and they decide to lead their herds towards Lake Victoria.

The migrating animals are followed by their attendant predators, hyena, lion, wild dog and vultures. Thousands of them fall prey to the predators while many more die in the Mara floods while crossing the river.

Apart from the migratory animals Masai Mara is rich in resident game with over 95 species recorded in the Reserve. Most common species include: The Secretary bird, Vultures, Eagles, Guinea Fowls, Ground hornbills, Bustards, Somali Ostrich, Kingfishers and many others.