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Masai Mara Game Reserve
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The Masai Mara
The Masai Mara is Kenya's most celebrated game park, it offers the possibility of seeing "the big five" and many other species of game. Each year the Mara plays host to the world’s greatest natural spectacle, the Great Wildebeest Migration from the Serengeti. From July to October, the promise of rain and fresh life giving grass in the north brings more than 1.3 million Wildebeest together into a single massive herd. They pour across the border into the Mara, making a spectacular entrance in a surging column of life that stretches from horizon to horizon. At the Mara River they mass together on the banks before finally plunging forward through the raging waters, creating a frenzy as they fight against swift currents and waiting 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.
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Amboseli National Park
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Amboseli National Park
One of the iconic pictures of Africa - elephants walking against a backdrop of the snow-capped Kilimanjaro - originates in Amboseli National Park. This is the image, more than any other, that shaped my childhood dreams of Africa. The snows of Kilimanjaro may be thawing due to global warming but the image of animals framed by Africa's highest point continues to enthrall visitors. At times the mountain is covered by mist but then the imagination adds an extra dimension to the experience.
Relatively small at around 390 km2 Amboseli is one of Kenya's most visited parks, although parts of the park have suffered recently due to drought, over-grazing and the excessive demand of tourism, resulting in areas becoming barren dust bowls. I found Amboseli to be the busiest park in Kenya, tourist wise, with vehicles literally racing from sighting to sighting but nevertheless the landscape and the wildlife made up for what the park lacked in human etiquette.
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Kenya's Special Samburu Reserve --
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In northern Kenya there is a place that never fails to impress all who visit there. The Samburu National Reserve is a place of haunting beauty, fascinating culture and teeming with wildlife .... "
Samburu Game Reserve
Samburu Game Reserve is situated in the hot and arid fringes of Kenya's vast Northern Frontier District. The area is home to the Samburu tribe, pastoral relatives of the Masai. The landscape is rugged and dramatic - against a backdrop of volcanic mountains, gaunt hills and withered scrub tree punctuate the sparse and dry terrain with clusters of the incredibly hardy desert rose providing the occasional flash of vivid colour. The Ewaso Nyiro river, lifeline of the area, runs along the southern boundary dividing Samburu from Buffalo Springs Reserve. Crocodile and hippo share the river with the many small herds of elephant which bathe and frolic in the muddy brown waters during the heat of the day before returning later to browse on the lush vegetation of the riverine forest. Buffalo, lion, leopard, cheetah and plains game may also be seen but a special feature of this Reserve are the various species of game unique to these northern parks - Beisa Oryx, the long necked gerenuk, Grevy's zebra, reticulated giraffe and the blue shanked Somali ostrich. Samburu Reserve covers an area of 104 km2 on the northern bank of Uaso Nyiro river. The reserve has a unique landscapes of rounded and rugged hills and undulating plains.
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